Noctilucent Clouds Season 2020

[reef]

There hasn't been a single night that wasnt mostly or completely cloudy since the 1st June here. The last 7 have all had thick fog. At least that's gone.

Fingers crossed for something in the next few days.

[Cal5]

Looked like there was definitely something showing on the London webcams. Couldn't see anything when I stepped outside though in the brief window I had before the clouds took over.

[Zak M]

Had a faint show here

[Paul Sherman]

Got out before the frontal cloud came in - A lot lighter tonight between 1045 and 1130pm so following settings

F5.6 ISO 200 and 15 seconds exposure but fudged the focus up tonight Grrrrr

[Arnie Pie]

latest Aim 18-06-2020

[mushymanrob]

9 hours ago, Arnie Pie said:

latest Aim 18-06-2020

looks good for tonight then!

 

[Jamie M]

12 hours ago, Paul Sherman said:

Got out before the frontal cloud came in - A lot lighter tonight between 1045 and 1130pm so following settings

F5.6 ISO 200 and 15 seconds exposure but fudged the focus up tonight Grrrrr

Should be a setting to lock the camera to manual focus Paul. Had to do it with my D3400 so it didn't change focus after pressing the shutter.

[Phil Halper]

Took this in London on the morning of the 17th of June 

[Paul Sherman]

12 minutes ago, Jamiee said:

Should be a setting to lock the camera to manual focus Paul. Had to do it with my D3400 so it didn't change focus after pressing the shutter.

Thanks Jamiee - Will have a hunt around for that good tip

[Phil Halper]

52 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Thanks Jamiee - Will have a hunt around for that good tip

Hey Paul Isee you are also a storm chaser, do you tours in the USA with tour companies or on your own? 

[Paul Sherman]

1 hour ago, Phil Halper said:

Hey Paul Isee you are also a storm chaser, do you tours in the USA with tour companies or on your own? 

Hi Phil

I have run a Tour group for the last 17 years starting in 2004 (1st Season Missed this year due to Covid) and it is apart of this forum actually. The Website is

Weather Holidays - Storm Chasing - Weatherholidays.com

WWW.WEATHERHOLIDAYS.COM

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Join WeatherHolidays for the trip of a lifetime storm chasing in the USA or Canada to witness the most incredible storms and tornadoes on planet earth.

And if you want to read up on any of the blogs from all of those Seasons which include between 1500 and 2000 Supercell Intercepts and 225 Tornadoes they are also on the site if you ever get bored lol

WeatherHolidays Blog – Reports and updates from the WeatherHolidays Storm Chases

BLOGS.WEATHERHOLIDAYS.COM

We also run tours to Arizona for the Monsoon and Canadian Storm Chasing as well

Loads of reading on there if we hit the 2nd Lockdown phase

[Arnie Pie]

4 hours ago, mushymanrob said:

looks good for tonight then!

 

and a likelyhood of clear sky....If everything holds together we could be in for a proper bramah

worth keeping an eye on Eastern europe for a 'Heads up'

[Arnie Pie]

17 hours ago, Paul Sherman said:

settings

F5.6 ISO 200 and 15 seconds exposure but fudged the focus up tonight Grrrrr

shame mate would have been a great foreground for your shot....did you have to travel for that shot or is that part of Essexshire

[Arnie Pie]

4 hours ago, Phil Halper said:

Took this in London on the morning of the 17th of June 

That`s a bit of a corker Phil...I think we would like to know your settings if you care to share

[Arnie Pie]

Just noting that signals are being picked up on both Baltic radar sites at Oswin and Juliusruh

always has been a good sign on the Oswin radar....as for the Juliusruh MF radar I haven`t a Scobby to be honest...still reading

[mushymanrob]

Well me n my lad have charged cameras, cleaned a 40 year old tripod, lol, discovered settings on my camera i didnt know i had! lol

So we are set...IF theres a chance of a decent display.

 

[Paul Sherman]

1 hour ago, Arnie Pie said:

shame mate would have been a great foreground for your shot....did you have to travel for that shot or is that part of Essexshire

That one is actually the closest to my house, you can drive it in under 2 minutes and is about 1/2 mile away so plenty of chances.

Have scoped out about 6 locations since being on Lockdown, that first one in May on the North Norfolk Coast was just too far away with it being a 2hr 40 mins drive and getting home at 530am was a killer

[Arnie Pie]

A Rod Steward song comes to mind about tonight. Rob

i`m even glad that all these thunder clouds are finally peeing off ...from our area

I think we will know pretty early on, if there is a show...... via scocial media....i think iv`e got Faceache covered and im sure that the younger contributors will be 'car bonnet' with twitter

[Paul Sherman]

Its a strange one tonight, so on my system it would show that zero NLCs would be possible tonight in Europe but others use different methods in this thread.

I gave a few of my Canadian Chaser Friends a Heads up 2 days ago saying Saturday would be good if skies were clear. One of my pals sent me a message on Facebook this morning saying "Many Many Thanks for the heads up using the 2 day rule system" and Gunjan then sent me this - He knows how to take pictures btw lol

 

 

Edited June 21, 2020 by Paul Sherman

[Paul Sherman]

Ooops wrong Image thats one of ours from Norfolk

Here is His from Last night in Saskatchewan

 

[Arnie Pie]

27 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Ooops wrong Image thats one of ours from Norfolk

Here is His from Last night in Saskatchewan

 

Proper photo... lovely composure

Difficult to tell....with the clockface method we would have the big arm of cloud at 11'clock 3 days out

i`m only just gaining confidence in using to the 2 day forecast   but due to the lateness of posting.... we are already aware of any displays via social media

It will be interesting to find out.....We`ll know in an hour or so

I`ll have a cheeky pint with you mate

[Arnie Pie]

Павло Пахоменко‎Noctilucent clouds around the world

Kharkiv, Ukraine (50N) 20 minutes ago (22:00 UTC+3).
Europe be ready!

Latest AIM

 

 

 

Edited June 21, 2020 by Arnie Pie

[Phil Halper]

3 hours ago, Arnie Pie said:

That`s a bit of a corker Phil...I think we would like to know your settings if you care to share

Its 2 sec f6.3 iso 500 taken on an astro modified  sony a7s 

[Paul Sherman]

That Ukraine sighting ties in with my system and Germany/Poland etc for the coming morning.

Am hopeful we might see something albeit weak just before dawn.

But tomorrow night should be a cracker.

I hope to be proved wrong and we get a decent display

[mushymanrob]

1 hour ago, Arnie Pie said:

Павло Пахоменко‎Noctilucent clouds around the world

Kharkiv, Ukraine (50N) 20 minutes ago (22:00 UTC+3).
Europe be ready!

Latest AIM

 

 

 

That would suggest dawn more then dusk tonight..