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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

Please post any reports and observations and general comments here for this season.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

North Wales this weekend.

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  • Location: chellaston, derby
  • Weather Preferences: The Actual Weather ..... not fantasy.
  • Location: chellaston, derby

nowt here in derby on monday night, but someone saw them in tamworth, which is south of derby... i reckon i live in a nocticlucent shadow..

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  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam
On 13/06/2018 at 18:55, Weather-history said:

Best noctilucent season by far was 2009. Some of the displays were magnificent. Recent times have been pretty unspectacular not aided by the weather trying to see them anyway.

18th June 2009. Amazing displays that evening. A blue electric colour and almost near the zenith, 

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  • Location: East Lothian
  • Weather Preferences: Not too hot, excitement of snow, a hoolie
  • Location: East Lothian

Lots of pictures appearing on Twitter this morning

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  • Location: @scotlandwx
  • Weather Preferences: Crystal Clear High Pressure & Blue Skies
  • Location: @scotlandwx

Guilty as charged re twitter.

Amazing sight last night, love hunting for these. Not seen such a wide display before where most of northern horizon covered in blanket of NLC.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

 

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  • Location: Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire
  • Location: Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire

Haven't had much luck this year so far due to relentless cloud overnight, but hoping next week provides an opportunity during the hot spell.

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  • Location: chellaston, derby
  • Weather Preferences: The Actual Weather ..... not fantasy.
  • Location: chellaston, derby

think ill try staying up tonight, if i can stay sober (need to travel for best views), cool clear skies, should produce?...

 

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  • Location: chellaston, derby
  • Weather Preferences: The Actual Weather ..... not fantasy.
  • Location: chellaston, derby

NOTHING. im already hearing reports of them last night, some stunning pics. i stayed out from 11pm until midnight when it was all but dark.  sat on a high vantage point with a clear view of the northern horizon.

all i can conclude is that derby is too far south.

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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District

Didn't see anything from my vantage point in the Peak District, looking at the spaceweather model of the clouds there's a 'kink' to the north in the wave leaving out the north Atlantic and Faeroes, some cluster of NLCs to the east but it'll be another day or two before the wave returns. Clear skies forecast for most of next week so i'm remaining optimistic.

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  • Location: chellaston, derby
  • Weather Preferences: The Actual Weather ..... not fantasy.
  • Location: chellaston, derby
2 hours ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

Didn't see anything from my vantage point in the Peak District, looking at the spaceweather model of the clouds there's a 'kink' to the north in the wave leaving out the north Atlantic and Faeroes, some cluster of NLCs to the east but it'll be another day or two before the wave returns. Clear skies forecast for most of next week so i'm remaining optimistic.

hi, have you got a link to that spaceweather site please? if theres a way of predicting when we can see these it would help.

ps...ive seen pics on facebook from north york moors of them from last night, frustratingly!

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
1 hour ago, mushymanrob said:

hi, have you got a link to that spaceweather site please? if theres a way of predicting when we can see these it would help.

ps...ive seen pics on facebook from north york moors of them from last night, frustratingly!

Here you go Mushy..

http://www.spaceweather.com

 

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  • Location: East Lothian
  • Weather Preferences: Not too hot, excitement of snow, a hoolie
  • Location: East Lothian
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  • Location: chellaston, derby
  • Weather Preferences: The Actual Weather ..... not fantasy.
  • Location: chellaston, derby
17 hours ago, Jo Farrow said:

where were these observed?

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  • Location: Birmingham, Harborne 160 asl
  • Weather Preferences: Columus Bigus Convectivus
  • Location: Birmingham, Harborne 160 asl

This mornings view from Birmingham  2am

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

Display ongoing at the moment as seen at midnight here in Snowdonia North Wales. Apologies for grainy mobile phone pics.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

From a couple of days ago.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

I was a bit late looking out tonight but possibly weak NLCs in South Staffs ??

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  • Location: East Lothian
  • Weather Preferences: Not too hot, excitement of snow, a hoolie
  • Location: East Lothian

 Bit of advice from Astronomical Society of Edinburgh (tweets)

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
9 hours ago, kar999 said:

I was a bit late looking out tonight but possibly weak NLCs in South Staffs ??

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Apparently so...other reports on twitter about last night.

 

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

 

NLCs have been visible for the last few days and with clear skies forecast almost countrywide this week it is well worth looking to the NW/N an hour or so after sunset (or the NE before dawn for the early risers or those on the way home from a night on the town!!   )

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

Amazing...

 

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