Noctilucent Clouds
Taken by Andy Stables on May 10, 2016 @ Milovaig, Isle of Skye, Scotland
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  Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 70D
Exposure Time: 5/1
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2016:05:11 00:30:18
  
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Image was taken on May 10th, 2016 at 23:54 BST (22:54 UT). The clouds were clearly lit and bright against the dark sky. Over time, they were drifting slowly from West to East.
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Apologies I have made a mistake there.The clouds were drifting from East to West, not West to East.
Posted by andystables 2016-05-11 13:44:54
Great image, but these are not Noctilucent Clouds.
First of all, they appear in July, and they are much brighter. So, these are just cirrus clouds.
Posted by rmerzlyakov 2016-05-11 15:16:22
Moonlit cirrus is my opinion, not NLC. Still the scene it very nice!
Posted by LandyGyebnar 2016-05-12 20:04:14
Time-lapse would clear any mystery :)
Posted by Topazas 2016-05-13 10:00:47
Anyway, this picture is stunning! What a perfect deep colour of the sky! I just fall in love.
Posted by Lilium13 2016-05-15 07:30:23
Its actually a fairly easy mystery to solve, at 2300 UTC the sun is around 12.5 degrees below the horizon from, which a maximum elevation of sunlit noctilucent cloud of around 9 or 10 degrees. In this case the clouds have a much higher elevation. Thats why NLCs dont extend much into the dark stary skies.
Posted by grwhipps 2016-05-15 16:27:34
 
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