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Post by PeteG on May 22, 2010 19:57:33 GMT
excellent Les! Immensely useful tool Pete
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Post by ciderman on May 22, 2010 22:39:45 GMT
All ready to go down here in somerset, finally invested in a new camera after borrowing a friends last year, looking forward to some great summer weather and noctilucent clouds displays. Good luck with the BBC NLC investigation i look forward to hearing all about it.
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Post by PeteG on May 22, 2010 22:41:26 GMT
Hey ciderman! Whats your new camera? I'm looking to get the new Pentax K7 soon, Pete
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Post by ciderman on May 23, 2010 22:12:50 GMT
Its a Canon 450d hopefully it will get some good photos, been trying to work out all the functions as first dslr i have owned so may need a couple of trial runs before things start coming together, if you have any tips they would be gratefully received. Pentax K7 looks like a great camera but a bit out of my price range at the moment.
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Post by mesospheric on May 25, 2010 8:02:21 GMT
Nothing seen from Anglesey between 21:30 and 23:40UT. Nice and clear to the horizon, with no haze as of late. May 26th is meant to be the earliest possilbe date where NLC appear, according to one study. That's tomorrow!
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Post by PeteG on May 28, 2010 1:03:03 GMT
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Post by markt on May 28, 2010 6:33:53 GMT
Lol, cool shot Pete. Nothing from me in the west mids either...
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Post by dgrutherford on May 28, 2010 7:30:31 GMT
Hi,
Don't want to jump the gun without confirmation but there may have been a hint of NLC very low to the north - less than 10 Deg - at around 0130 GMT this morning (27/28th May). Was wondering if anyone else saw anything although as there are few, if any, observers north of the Moray Firth it would be a forlorn hope.
Dave Rutherford
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Post by mesospheric on May 28, 2010 7:47:14 GMT
Hi Dave,
Hope you are well. There's been nothing at all evident right down to the horizon for the past three nights from Anglesey, but that doesn't discount them appearing on someone else's horizon! The question we have to politely ask, if you think you've seen a 'hint' of NLC, is what kind of hint was it? Not being funny, it's just that there is always a bit of an undeclared competition to be the first to spot NLC every year so, being a scientist yourself, you'll understand that we need quality photos or unequivocal sightings of NLC forms.
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Post by markt on May 28, 2010 11:20:15 GMT
Hi Dave, I'm up in Peebles from tonight for several days so shall be sure to keep my eyes peeled. Mark
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Post by kendalstu on May 28, 2010 12:35:17 GMT
Hi... new member here making my first post :-) I'm an amateur astronomer living in Kendal, in the Lake District, and really looking forward to seeing some great NLC displays this year; saw a couple of lovely ones last year but am better organised this year so won't miss as many as I did in '09! :-) My homepage, if anyone wants a look, is at: stuartatkinson.wordpress.com Looking forward to sharing the 2010 NLC season with you all! :-)
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Post by Fourmi103 on May 28, 2010 21:09:02 GMT
Hi Stu !! Welcom aboard ! Yes, I think we are all impatient about this 2010 season. Also, no NLC this evenning at all
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Post by dgrutherford on May 28, 2010 21:45:28 GMT
Hi again,
Was up (for other reasons) around 2.30 (BST) and noticed the sky to the north. It is usually bright twilight at this time of year buit there did appear to be a brigher layer very close to the horizon. Not sufficiently sure to claim it as NLC hence lookig for confirmation. Teach me to go and get my binociulars next time. I'm afraid my past NLC photography was with 35mm SLR cameras (which is till have somewhere). Not really progressed into the 21st century with digital SLR yet but I've promised myself to do so as soon as possible. Too cloudy this evening for anything by the way. Dave
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Post by mesospheric on May 29, 2010 9:56:04 GMT
Hello Dave,
There has certainly been a lot of haze-like layering towards the horizon for several months now as these blocking highs continue to hover over us. The Icelandic volcano has contributed even more dusty streaks, and if you watch Venus slowly set, it's obvious that the layers cause a high degree of extinction. The layers also tend to have gaps, so that you get a bright-dark-bright effect, with the bright bits looking like they might be NLC, which they're not. There certainly can be just 'bumps' of brightness that are NLC early on and late in the season, but I haven't seen any evidence of 2010 NLC at all yet, and like you, have been keeping an active watch really all year round.
It looks like we're getting some solar stuff coming our way at the moment, too, so I suspect this will increase mesospheric temps and delay the onset of the NLC season by a wee bit. [checks the NOAA site] - wow! A G1 storm underway. I doubt we'll see NLC over the next couple of days, at least. Let's see what happens...
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Post by markt on May 29, 2010 11:39:50 GMT
I was looking from Peebles around 12.30am GMT this morning, and apart from a bright twilight arch saw nothing apart from stars!
I know what you mean about the haze from Eyjafjallajokull John, while it may not have produced the vivid sunsets we have seen in the past from other volcanoes it is certainly having a subtle effect if you know where and what to look for. On a couple of occassions over the last week or so i've seen pseudo NLC caused by this horizon haze...
The NLC will come, we've just got to be patient I guess...
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