5YRS AGO ON THIS DAY - MEMORIES OF A BEAUTIFUL NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS DISPLAY WITNESSED FROM SCARBOROUGH
On this day five years ago we managed to capture some beautiful Noctilucent Clouds on camera. I believe this was the earliest in the NLC season that we have ever caught them (24th - 25th May). It's also worth noting that we saw these beautiful clouds three years ago on this day too. So any day now we may start to see Noctilucent Clouds gracing our skies!!!
I clearly remember this night. We saw these beautiful shimmering, 'night shining' clouds start to appear following watching the International Space Station fly by over the castle, Jupiter and across the ocean. We even saw a 'shooting star' that night too! 😊🌊
It was so exciting and memorable to witness, we've been hooked ever since the first time we witnessed them.
It may be possible that the noctilucent cloud season has already begun, there have been recent (unconfirmed) reports of NLC sightings. So we are hoping it won't be long until we get treated to them in Scarborough and beyond too! 💙🧡✨
As mentioned in our Noctilucent Clouds post the other day (I will link this in the comments) these clouds are special in that they only appear in the late spring/summer months. They are very beautiful, wispy, lacey clouds that appear to be shimmering in the nights sky. They are made up of ice crystals and formed high in the upper atmosphere, they are in fact the highest clouds on Earth. They begin to become visible during astronomical twilight when they reflect/are illuminated by the sunlight from beneath the Horizon.
If you would like to learn more about the beautiful natural phenomena known as Noctilucent Clouds, please take a look at our previous post.
Also mentioned in our previous post, the OSWIN and MARSY radars that are often a good indicator of the possibility of seeing NLC, are beginning to show signals. These signals may mean that we might see these beautiful clouds appear over the UK any day now, so if you have clear skies anywhere across the North West to North East horizon, it's worth looking for them.
A good time to look for them is an hour or two before sunrise or an hour or two after sunset. No special equipment is required to see these special clouds either, one’s eyes will do just fine. 💙
Whilst there is no way to 100 percent accurately predict these beautiful clouds, we will do our best to let you know if they are likely to be seen or if they are visible here on Astro Dog.
If you head out to try and see them, good luck and fingers crossed we get some clear skies too. 😊✨
