Noctilucent clouds pictures

Some shots of last night's display, seen from Leeds (unprocessed JPEGs,
about 2.5MB each). Click on the thumbnails for the full picture. The
bright star in the middle of some of them is Capella.

http://www.roast.iconbar.com/misc/20...23noctilucent/

Best, Chris

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Very impressive display and thanks for sharing. I was on watch earlier
in the evening after Maurice Gavin's sighting the night before but I
did not see any then. Must stay up all night to catch'em.

Pierre MK-UK


Chris Terran wrote:
Some shots of last night's display, seen from Leeds (unprocessed JPEGs,
about 2.5MB each). Click on the thumbnails for the full picture. The
bright star in the middle of some of them is Capella.

http://www.roast.iconbar.com/misc/20...23noctilucent/

Best, Chris

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Chris Terran typed


Some shots of last night's display, seen from Leeds (unprocessed JPEGs,
about 2.5MB each). Click on the thumbnails for the full picture. The
bright star in the middle of some of them is Capella.

http://www.roast.iconbar.com/misc/20...23noctilucent/

Lovely images!

How did you switch off the streetlight? ;-)

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Edgware.

Chris Terran wrote in
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Some shots of last night's display, seen from Leeds (unprocessed JPEGs,
about 2.5MB each). Click on the thumbnails for the full picture. The
bright star in the middle of some of them is Capella.

http://www.roast.iconbar.com/misc/20...23noctilucent/

Best, Chris


I saw this lot from Billericay, Essex.

It's the first time I've ever seen NLC; I was just going to bed when I saw
the N - NE sky brilliantly lit, so I went to see what was up.

The display was a brilliant silvery white - very impressive were horizontal
layer clouds in front showing as jet black (very wierd).

At first it was very complex and swirly, much finer than normal cloud, and
by the time (2-30) I gave it up, there wetre masses of very distinct
ripples like sand on a tidal beach.

Fantastic stuff, and the time I've spent peering into the sky following
reports, and seen nowt. I thought it would be very faint and fleeting, but
this easily outshone the streetlights, and was there from before 2 till
nearly 3 to my knowledge.

Now if anyone can fix an aurora....

mike

In message , Chris Terran
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Some shots of last night's display, seen from Leeds (unprocessed JPEGs,
about 2.5MB each).

Sorry to say I missed this one from here in the N.E. as it was tucked
behind tropo cloud early on so I went off to bed, dammit!
Have you thought of passing these to Tom McEwan
http://www.nlcnet.co.uk
for his report page at
http://www nlcnet.co.uk/nlcreps.htm
No show here yet tonight, I'm afraid.
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John

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Some shots of last night's display, seen from Leeds

Weather conditions here look like the night before last; I'll be having
another look.

Must buy a camera, but if I have one, there's never anything to
photograph ;-(

mike

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Chris Terran wrote in
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Some shots of last night's display, seen from Leeds

Weather conditions here look like the night before last; I'll be having
another look.

Must buy a camera, but if I have one, there's never anything to
photograph ;-(

mike

If you do decide to buy, and you 'go digital', note that the cheaper
cameras almost surely will not have long exposures on auto and there
will be no BULB setting. It seems that only the digital SLRs provide the
B setting now and, for the asking prices, they should provide that and
make the coffee for those cold observing nights.
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John

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Must buy a camera, but if I have one, there's never anything to
photograph ;-(

mike

If you do decide to buy, and you 'go digital', note that the cheaper
cameras almost surely will not have long exposures on auto and there
will be no BULB setting. It seems that only the digital SLRs provide the
B setting now and, for the asking prices, they should provide that and
make the coffee for those cold observing nights.

You've put your finger right on it!

I want a good lens, more than x3, probably more like x10. OK, my SLRs never
had a lens like that, but I'd have liked them to.

I'll watch out for B (I always thought that meant brief) but also (or
instead) I guess I need T.

I don't think I need huge megapixels, surely 5 or 6 is plenty.

I'm only casually into astronomy, it's too damn difficult/cold/time
consuming for me, but I do like night photography, and the other night's
NLC would have made a wonderful, (and easy) shot, it was so bright.

I gave up 35 mm because of film wastage, difficulty of processing and
printing my own, which I did in B & W.

A good digital camera would be fantastic for the 1 in a thousand worthwhile
shot I make, but I still feel they haven't stabilised, at least to what I
want.

Apropos of nothing, it's only dusk, and Jupiter is burning my eyes out!

mike

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John wrote in :


Must buy a camera, but if I have one, there's never anything to
photograph ;-(

mike

If you do decide to buy, and you 'go digital', note that the cheaper
cameras almost surely will not have long exposures on auto and there
will be no BULB setting. It seems that only the digital SLRs provide the
B setting now and, for the asking prices, they should provide that and
make the coffee for those cold observing nights.

You've put your finger right on it!

I want a good lens, more than x3, probably more like x10. OK, my SLRs never
had a lens like that, but I'd have liked them to.

I'll watch out for B (I always thought that meant brief) but also (or
instead) I guess I need T.

I don't think I need huge megapixels, surely 5 or 6 is plenty.

I'm only casually into astronomy, it's too damn difficult/cold/time
consuming for me, but I do like night photography, and the other night's
NLC would have made a wonderful, (and easy) shot, it was so bright.

I gave up 35 mm because of film wastage, difficulty of processing and
printing my own, which I did in B & W.

A good digital camera would be fantastic for the 1 in a thousand worthwhile
shot I make, but I still feel they haven't stabilised, at least to what I
want.

Apropos of nothing, it's only dusk, and Jupiter is burning my eyes out!

mike
The T setting was dropped even on most film cameras but you could get
similar results with a locking cable release on B. I am annoyed that I
spent £(lots) on a decent digital camera and am restricted to 8 secs.
which is not good enough for night-sky work other than the brightest of
objects.
Even my old Box Brownie could do better than that!
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Cheers and hope for more good NLC,
John.

Originally Posted by John

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If you do decide to buy, and you 'go digital', note that the cheaper
cameras almost surely will not have long exposures on auto and there
will be no BULB setting. It seems that only the digital SLRs provide the
B setting now and, for the asking prices, they should provide that and
make the coffee for those cold observing nights. snip
--
John

No real need for a DSLR [although I'd recommend one!] for NLC imaging as many pocket digicams extend to 1s-4s exp @ say f/3.5 or faster in "Night Mode" but need a tripod. Just test it on the NW dusk sky at say 11pm [don't forget to disable flash!] and your ready for the real thing.

BTW - no NLC seen/recorded from London for last night or this morning;-(

Nytecam