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NLC Torphins bnm4173jhp Noctilucent cloud display NLC summer night Torphins Scotland Aberdeenshire sky blue network rare event usually occurring between latitudes 55 and 65 degrees resembling thin cirrus but most often a bluish silvery colour although orange or reddish colours and are a beautiful and eerie sight, the spidery network rather like the mind filaments from Dumbeldore's Pensive in Harry Potter usually of sapphire blue, gossamer white or occasionally red colours from ice crystals catching the last twilight is seen around the time the brightest stars appear and their strength grows around maximum darkness, usually after midnight BST. They happen only a few times a year and need a clear cloudless night best to see them although in this photo the normal clouds are also present. This is taken looking magnetic 45 degrees from Crooktree over Torphins and 25 miles west of Aberdeen in North East Scotland, the first show visible because of consistent cloud cover in 2016 in the late night of the 5th July. Taken at 23.40 UT [nearly 1pm in BST] using a D700 Nikon DSLR with 28mm f2.8 prime lens at f8, 2.8 second exposure at ISO500. Many examples of NLC from around the world can be seen in the gallery at www.Spaceweather.com and recent evidence suggests that possibly because of Global Warming they are appearing increasingly further to the south. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Deeside, Torphins, Noctilucent, clouds, landscape, NLC, north, high, atmosphere, ice, crystals, cirrus, reflections, twilight, summer, sun, sapphire, blue, cobwebs, filaments, patterns, eerie, rare, night, 2016, July, digital, camera, Nikon, D700, DSLR
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NLC Torphins bnm4173jhp
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Noctilucent cloud display NLC summer night Torphins Scotland Aberdeenshire sky

blue network rare event usually occurring between latitudes 55 and 65 degrees resembling thin cirrus but most often a bluish silvery colour although orange or reddish colours and are a beautiful and eerie sight, the spidery network rather like the mind filaments from Dumbeldore's Pensive in Harry Potter usually of sapphire blue, gossamer white or occasionally red colours from ice crystals catching the last twilight is seen around the time the brightest stars appear and their strength grows around maximum darkness, usually after midnight BST. They happen only a few times a year and need a clear cloudless night best to see them although in this photo the normal clouds are also present. This is taken looking magnetic 45 degrees from Crooktree over Torphins and 25 miles west of Aberdeen in North East Scotland, the first show visible because of consistent cloud cover in 2016 in the late night of the 5th July. Taken at 23.40 UT [nearly 1pm in BST] using a D700 Nikon DSLR with 28mm f2.8 prime lens at f8, 2.8 second exposure at ISO500. Many examples of NLC from around the world can be seen in the gallery at www.Spaceweather.com and recent evidence suggests that possibly because of Global Warming they are appearing increasingly further to the south.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Deeside, Torphins, Noctilucent, clouds, landscape, NLC, north, high, atmosphere, ice, crystals, cirrus, reflections, twilight, summer, sun, sapphire, blue, cobwebs, filaments, patterns, eerie, rare, night, 2016, July, digital, camera, Nikon, D700, DSLR