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And about time too! 🙂

Yesterday was possibly THE most changeable weather day we’ve had in quite some time; windy, for most of the day, there were sunny, hot spells all day, then in the late afternoon it started to rain, and rain more, then there was a flash, “was that lightning?” then a loud rumble of thunder and it POURED down for around five minutes, a few rumbles, a few flashes and …………. gone! The sun came out and it was roasting, we had to open two doors to get a breeze through the house.

As the evening wore on, I realised it was going to be a clear night so, as we prepared for bed, I prepared a camera and set it up for a midnight start, it’s too light any earlier.

I woke up for a nature call around 01:15 and felt the need to check outside. I opened the curtains where the camera was, gazed groggily at the sky then shuffled back to bed where I promptly got alert-head! “Was that noctilucent clouds?, Yeah but, really? Was it?” So I checked my Glendale Aurora app and sure enough, there were notch reports galore. Up I got, grabbed the other camera and the tripod, a dressing gown, slippers and headed outside.

It was!

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That is a three-shot stitched panorama, probably NE to NW ish. Most shots are at 18mm.

It was a pretty damned good display, probably the widest and brightest I’ve seen up here. I got some shots last year and, I just looked back at them, it was the same night, tonight that I got them! Spooky huh?

So, I was standing outside in my dressing gown and slippers, staring in awe and grabbing shots, while the chill breeze wafted around my nethers! It was chilly!

I even took a video that is pretty noisy, photographically speaking and the focus isn’t great but, it’s a decent record, the idea was to look for movement within the cloud formation. I’ll check later.

I don’t remember thinking too much about what or how I was capturing but I did get a decent set of shots. I know I was thinking “it’s chuffing freezing out here!!” so I didn’t hang around too long.

I did think I need to zoom in for some closer shots.

There was a decent breeze blowing as I said and I was fiddling with the camera so some shots have movement in them but, I shall leave you with a set of various images before I dived back inside and got snug under the duvet again, after reporting on Glendale App, my go-to for Aurora and Noctilucent alerts.

And that was that, I’d almost lost my bearings 😉

I think it’s due to be cloudy tonight but ………….

Learn more about Noctilucent clouds / BBC Sky at Night

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