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Post by markt on Jul 30, 2007 8:20:33 GMT
www.spaceweather.com is reporting NLC were active over Europe last night. I was up and out observing all night but saw none  Anyone else have anymore luck or pickies? 
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Post by lesc on Jul 30, 2007 8:36:02 GMT
Les wasn't up but the north and east facing weathercams picked up these complex and bright NLC, date & time on picture: North Facing Cam:  East Facing Cam:  Tom Macewan has the whole sequence he'll hopefully put it up. Les |
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Post by heaven31 on Jul 30, 2007 10:18:49 GMT
I seen some!! ;D The first time this year that I've been completely sure I was looking at NLC and it was by a total flook that I happened to see them too. My husband had been working away in London and was really late getting home. He woke me up when he came in and I couldn't get back to sleep so was still awake at 4.30am.........and that's when I seen them. I think if I had seen them earlier I would have gotten a better view but it was starting to get light (only just). They were quite high in the sky, almost right over my house and it was a large patch of the rippled sand type with bright bands running thru. There were scattered clouds below them that were moving pretty fast but these hardly moved in the half hour I watched them. Along the edge of the display, the clouds spread into tendrils that went way over my roof (I was watching them from my loft window) It was a lovely surprise as with the weather and heavy cloud that we've had in recent weeks, I really thought I wasn't gonna get to see any this season. I just wish I knew how to take decent pics of them  Jo x |
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Post by tmcewan on Jul 30, 2007 10:40:42 GMT
We've had some surprisingly good weather here over the last week or so but no NLC, up until last night that is. Here's an image from 0242UT:  |
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Post by tmcewan on Jul 30, 2007 11:15:15 GMT
I seen some!! ;D The first time this year that I've been completely sure I was looking at NLC and it was by a total flook that I happened to see them too. My husband had been working away in London and was really late getting home. He woke me up when he came in and I couldn't get back to sleep so was still awake at 4.30am.........and that's when I seen them. I think if I had seen them earlier I would have gotten a better view but it was starting to get light (only just). They were quite high in the sky, almost right over my house and it was a large patch of the rippled sand type with bright bands running thru. There were scattered clouds below them that were moving pretty fast but these hardly moved in the half hour I watched them. Along the edge of the display, the clouds spread into tendrils that went way over my roof (I was watching them from my loft window) It was a lovely surprise as with the weather and heavy cloud that we've had in recent weeks, I really thought I wasn't gonna get to see any this season. I just wish I knew how to take decent pics of them Jo x Hi Jo, The display faded quickly here as the dawn sky brightened so it's good to know that further south, in darker skies, the NLC was still present. Tom |
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Post by heaven31 on Jul 30, 2007 13:31:34 GMT
Yeah I didn't get to see it for very long Tom as the sky started to brighten here. I wasn't even going out to look for NLC lol, I opened my loft window to have a smoke and was amazed to see the display sitting right there above me! By 5am the sky was far too bright to really see it properly and I was kicking mysef for not looking sooner, although I did look out at about 1.30am and there was nothing there then. I'll certainly be looking again tonight tho  Jo x |
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