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Stella,

Many thanks. Its good to see something new even for an "over 60"!

David

I saw this phenomenon in the sky last evening, 27 Aug, at 2020hrs.

I would guess it is some sort of refraction effect. The sun of off to the right of the picture, say 20deg away

Any ideas

David

Tony,

Interesting graph. It looks about the same as the images I have been taking over the last few months. I am using an 8 sec shot with a static DSLR set at 1600 ISO. I will track it until I can't detect it any more, at about mag 10.

Thanks for posting your results.

David

David,

Many thanks. I will keep a look out for them.

Davod

Just as a point of information. How far south are NLCs visible? I live just about on Lat 49N. Am I likely to see them from here.

David

Here is my effort!

David

Yes, it's a great sight. I saw it from my garden just after sunset and managed to get a, not very good, image before they set.

David

It was so minor that I had forgotten it until I looked at my images taken last night. He is my version.

It is interesting to note that France already has less external lighting than the UK. Where I live in Normandy, we have good dark skies already. Even darker ones will, of course, be welcome. I can see the milky way pretty well instantly as I walk outside. In the summer its visible right down to the ...

Here are some images I took in Normandy last night. We got clouded out at 20-30 UT.

David

It was traveling in the wrong direction. DA14 is going S to N, so any associated rocks would be doing the same. See the DA14 article in the BAA page.

David

My apologies. Lack of knowledge on my part.
David

Just got this last night. The clouds just cleared in time!!!

I think today we have the best of all worlds! We have affordable binoculars for casual, or serious, looking but we can easily move up to taking good images through a DSLR and then stacking them if we want. When I compare my efforts from 20 years ago with what I can do today with a DSLR and a 150mm l...

Yes, I got one as well!