Contrails

[Gadget]

Hi all

Are you finding that plane contrails are getting more of a problem

As my closet airport is a good 70miles away (Gatwick) planes was not on my list of observing problems such as light pollution etc although I am not under any sort of low level flight path I seem to be under a high level one

I only noticed because I have been out observing the almost full moon and because the sky is quite bright I could not believe the amount of contrails up there although I don't hear the planes there is always around a dozen or so but the annoying thing is they just don't seem to dissipate and stretch for the whole length of visible sky and just get wider and wider some seem to get to the width of around 3 or 4 full moons

While I was also looking at Jupiter I was able to watch the effects as they slowly drifted across my target and it did diminish my views somewhat

Kevin

[richbyers]

yep, thats why during that really bad snow last winter everyone was so excited because no planes would be about

rich

[Peter Drew]

So many contrails here in the NW this morning I'm surprised there were no collisions!

[Chris H]

We need another eruption from Iceland, it was super clear when all flights were grounded for the week.

[Pete Presland]

ever looked on you tube regarding contrails or chemitrails as they are referred to on there

YouTube - chemtrails all around the world

most bizzarre some people

[Gadget]

Interesting link never realized there was so much conspiracy and speculation theories behind them

The only reason I bought it up is I sure at one time they used to dissipate quite quickly but now they just seem to stay there to the point that when a few have appeared and built up it is almost like thin cloud cover everywhere

Kevin

[nitram100]

1 single plane contrail made my observing session impossible 2 nights ago, it covered Jupiter and eventually stretched to cover nearly 15 degrees of the sky.

But I live in London so I only have myself to blame.