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Post by Bill W on Jul 9, 2011 23:48:50 GMT
Hello all,
Great to see a few early warning posts!
Managed to get a few pics of the bright elements to the NW before cloud encroarched. Max h~20 degs. There was more bright nlc to N/NE but mostly covered with cloud, bugger!
cheers,
Bill.
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Post by malcolmp on Jul 10, 2011 0:00:37 GMT
Yes, good to see the alerts, thanks guys. I was looking at the IAP Juliusruh camera a while ago thinking that it looked like NLC, being an unsure novice I was about to post asking for confirmation when Olaf posted his alert ! Great, grabed camera+tripod, jumped in car and spent an hour seeing nothing in SW England !  Very bright opalescent blue low on north horizon that gave me hope, but after a while it faded  and I returned home. Will try again later. Malcolm |
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Post by Bill W on Jul 10, 2011 0:20:34 GMT
Hi Malcolm,
I'd just drove back from one of my local observing haunts too.
I has started to clear here and my cctv video camera is picking it up nicely.
After a cuppa I might venture out into the garden for another look.
Hope it clears in your neck of the woods.
Cheers,
Bill.
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Post by malcolmp on Jul 10, 2011 0:28:43 GMT
Hi Bill, well that is the frustrating bit, beautiful clear sky here, almost horizon to horizon ! from Plough and Capella in north to Vega, Cygnus south, moon set in the west, a bit of orange haze pollution over Bristol NEeast ,,,, grrrr no NLC ! Time for 'nuther look by car, back in a while >> Edit: not so long later, oh ! d d,, drat, clouded out |
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Post by Fourmi103 on Jul 10, 2011 0:47:30 GMT
On the IAP camera, that's just an amazing display ! Hope it's going far to south, so I could see them. Pic related, it's the last frame of the NLC camera of Kühlungsborn. Attachments:
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Post by malcolmp on Jul 10, 2011 0:55:01 GMT
Hi Fourmi,
I had also been watching Kühlungsborn earlier, but there was more tropo(?) cloud there.
Now the position is reversed, good view at K. less good at J.
Good luck with your watch,
Malcolm.
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Post by malcolmp on Jul 10, 2011 1:15:38 GMT
and my cctv video camera is picking it up nicely. Online anywhere ? regards, Malcolm |
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Post by Bill W on Jul 10, 2011 1:17:37 GMT
Hi,
Not live I'm afraid, I put them on youtube when I've chopped the bits together.
Bill.
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Post by bloo777 on Jul 10, 2011 3:52:39 GMT
Wonderful display seen in central Poland. After dusk few nice but not very bright strings. Before sunrise was a magnificent display, reaching up to 40-50 deg up, bright enough to qualify it as "4". One day I haven't took a camera with me (I were at a wedding party), and boom- NLC  At least I borrowed camera from a friend and took few shots of evening display, I should have them soon. Pity I didn't capture the morning display- it was one of the most beautiful I've seen for few years. |
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Post by ediacara on Jul 10, 2011 4:10:54 GMT
We had a very faint but XXXL size display this morning, the lowest part was bright but it soon disappeared while the upper parts grew like crazy! I could never imagine to have an NLC here in Hungary (47,8N ) at such an altitude! A very faint but still recognisable band streched up to 55° which is more than unusual here! The display was also huge in its azimuthal size, streched from 320 to 080. Here are some pics: picasaweb.google.com/lgym124/0710nlc#I should have brought my fisheye lens with me but I was awaken by a friend's alert phone call and I was not fully awake when rushed out. :-) |
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Post by tmcewan on Jul 10, 2011 11:41:56 GMT
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Post by Bill W on Jul 10, 2011 13:02:53 GMT
A lot of heavy cloud but here's the video of last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnvWfX4sXSIRather alarmingly the camera took a bit of a wobble hence the gap in recording (cunningly disguised with a movie maker transition!) Cheers, Bill. |
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Post by markt on Jul 11, 2011 6:17:43 GMT
Brilliant reports everyone!  |
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Post by Bill W on Jul 11, 2011 9:53:36 GMT
Hi, Despite some heavy cloud to start with and end with, quite a good display. For a bit of fun I took a couple of exposures through a gap in the tropo cloud to make a stereo pair for a 3D view. Once you get the hang of it it works quite well. Try to relax your eyesight well behind the screen, you'll probaby feel cross eyed but the brain should take over and there'll be the 3D view between the two other images.  cheers, Bill. |
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Post by MatsM on Jul 11, 2011 11:17:10 GMT
Hi. I made a panorama of the display 9/10 of july. Very nice and bright nlc display. My nlc report of the display don't show up in the nlc sightings. I have sent it in twice, but it didn´t help. I show it here instead.  MatsM |
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and I returned home. Will try again later.
At least I borrowed camera from a friend and took few shots of evening display, I should have them soon. Pity I didn't capture the morning display- it was one of the most beautiful I've seen for few years.
