Iridescence or PSC? Taken by Alan C Tough on December 31, 2025 @
Elgin, Moray, Scotland, UK
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 6D Exposure Time: 1/400 Aperture: f/16.0 ISO: 100 Date Taken: 2026:01:06 20:48:51
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Spotted through a small gap in low-level tropospheric cloud. Unlikely to be Polar Stratospheric Clouds, although they were spotted in Iceland on the same day and the Ozone map shows a narrow band of low Dobson Units extending from Iceland down to the north of Scotland:
ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/Scripts/big_image.php?date=2025-...