don't laugh but were these noctilucent clouds on thursday?

[Pete Presland]

having never seen noctilucent clouds before, despite looking every clear night since June.i saw these around 11:30 on Thursday they certainly looked like a bit different from normal clouds though.

pretty sure it was not a reflection from the local motorway like my last false sighting.

[laser_jock99]

Possibly?

[nightvision]

Yes they look convincing to me, 2330 to midnight is when I usually see them.

[Andy_E]

Photo is a little dark but certainly look like NLCs to me. We had a nice display over here in Cheshire on Wed around 11:30.

[Ptarmigan]

Yes !

Well spotted bg1,

The early 'evening' display of 18/19 July NLC was briefly intense well seen low in the northern sky NLC cameras of the IAP (sorry, I didnt keep copies)

[at : http://www.iap-kborn.../RUG/latest.jpg

and here

http://www.iap-kborn...ORN/latest.jpg

]

Also reported by BillW in Scotland on http://nlcnet.proboa...read=924&page=1

By the time I gathered up my gear ready to jump into the car the display had faded such that there was only a brief remenant left in the N.Ireland camera of Dave Gradwell (http://www.davegradw...com/hamcam.html)

I have looked on all those sites to try to find an archive of previous pics, no luck, sorry ! But worth checking those sites during future events, but season is nearly over ? :-(

[Dave]

They were photographed from Northampton and Milton Keynes on Thursday evening as well.

(Not by me I'm afraid).

[Pete Presland]

i thought they probably were this time.a friend at work who had seen them before spotted them as well from Bedford. the image is a bit dark, i will post one of the other images later.