First NLC of the season from Hungary on June 5th

[ujvarosibeata96]

On the evening of June 5th a faint little NLC was visible from Vácrátót, Hungary (47.7 N, 19.2 E) low on the NNW horizon. Still, I was very happy to see it since this marks the beginning of the season down here, and this is one of the earliest ,,season starting NLCs'' for Hungary (I only know of 2 years with earlier first NLCs, one of them was the famous 2019 season and the other last year). At first I thought it may be just a simple cirrus, but other Hungarian observers and pics from local webcams confirmed that it is indeed NLC. It is interesting that other webcams at few degrees north of my place (and on same longitude, in Poland) did not catch anything, so it had to be an individual little patch formed south of the main NLC-cover. For more details, see the report on the observations page.

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Jun 9, 2022 13:01:39 GMT ujvarosibeata96 said:

On the evening of June 5th a faint little NLC was visible from Vácrátót, Hungary (47.7 N, 19.2 E) low on the NNW horizon. Still, I was very happy to see it since this marks the beginning of the season down here, and this is one of the earliest ,,season starting NLCs'' for Hungary (I only know of 2 years with earlier first NLCs, one of them was the famous 2019 season and the other last year). At first I thought it may be just a simple cirrus, but other Hungarian observers and pics from local webcams confirmed that it is indeed NLC. It is interesting that other webcams at few degrees north of my place (and on same longitude, in Poland) did not catch anything, so it had to be an individual little patch formed south of the main NLC-cover. For more details, see the report on the observations page.

Congratulations! This is indeed an early observation for such a latitude, at least for the territory of the CIS.
We observed noctilucent clouds from Bryansk (54N) that night.

meteoweb.ru/astro/nlc/reports.php

Egor

[ujvarosibeata96]

Thanks! I see there are more and more sightings from mid-northern latitudes so I hope I'll get to see another one soon (especially in the coming few days since finally we have clear skies in the forecast, this week we had mostly cloudy nights making any observations impossible). Also, I checked your link and there are a couple of NLC reports from april (which is outside of the classic NLC-observation time range), they are very interesting knowing that NLC seasons have been intensifying strongly during the recent years.

[meteoweb]

Good afternoon! April noctilucent clouds are the result of launches from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (63N) in the Arkhangelsk region. Technogenic noctilucent clouds.

Egor

[ujvarosibeata96]

Thanks for your reply! For some reason the option of man-made noctilucent clouds did not come to my mind (that's why I found it interesting), although I have seen similar on the Spaceweather site (NLCs in february and other unusual months resulting from rocket launches in America).