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Nacreous-Clouds-wsc7023jhp Scottish British Nacreous clouds West Deeside vibrant colourful iridescent PSCs rare winter event taken on the afternoon of 24th December, 2023 at Crooktree, 25 miles west of Aberdeen, at 16.07hrsUT and was discovered by accident during extremely strong gusty winds looking Westwards above Ord Fundlie forest. These iridescent clouds are high altitude cirriform lenticular polar stratospheric, type 11 events, a rare winter sighting caused by twilight sunlight diffracted off ice crystals or water droplets with nitric or sulphuric acid content; sometimes called Mother of Pearl clouds because of the nature of the colour effect. This photograph was taken with a Nikon D700 full frame DSLR using a 28-300mm AF-S Nikkor ED zoom lens at f11 aperture, 112mm focal length, 1600 ISO with exposure of 1/60th second. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, Grampian, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Deeside, Torphins, village, nacreous, clouds, PSCs, polar, stratospheric, stratosphere, cirriform, Type 11, nitric, sulphuric, acid, lenticular, wave, iridescent, iridescence, mother of pearl, water, droplets, ice, crystals, very high, altitude, wind, evening, sky, gas, molecules, colourful, colorful, colours, colors, pink, bronze, yellow, gold, evening, winter, December, 2023, D700, Nikon, DSLR, Nikkor, 28-300mm, zoom, lens, digital, tripod, windy, gusting, forest, trees, swaying, blowing, photo, photos, photography, photograph, landscape
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
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Scottish British Nacreous clouds West Deeside vibrant colourful iridescent PSCs

rare winter event taken on the afternoon of 24th December, 2023 at Crooktree, 25 miles west of Aberdeen, at 16.07hrsUT and was discovered by accident during extremely strong gusty winds looking Westwards above Ord Fundlie forest. These iridescent clouds are high altitude cirriform lenticular polar stratospheric, type 11 events, a rare winter sighting caused by twilight sunlight diffracted off ice crystals or water droplets with nitric or sulphuric acid content; sometimes called Mother of Pearl clouds because of the nature of the colour effect. This photograph was taken with a Nikon D700 full frame DSLR using a 28-300mm AF-S Nikkor ED zoom lens at f11 aperture, 112mm focal length, 1600 ISO with exposure of 1/60th second.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, Grampian, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Deeside, Torphins, village, nacreous, clouds, PSCs, polar, stratospheric, stratosphere, cirriform, Type 11, nitric, sulphuric, acid, lenticular, wave, iridescent, iridescence, mother of pearl, water, droplets, ice, crystals, very high, altitude, wind, evening, sky, gas, molecules, colourful, colorful, colours, colors, pink, bronze, yellow, gold, evening, winter, December, 2023, D700, Nikon, DSLR, Nikkor, 28-300mm, zoom, lens, digital, tripod, windy, gusting, forest, trees, swaying, blowing, photo, photos, photography, photograph, landscape