Old and New…

No sign of any NLC last night (no? REALLY!?!?!?!?!?) but did see a pair of lovely ISS passes, including one which I managed to capture on film as it flew over a certain famous Kendal landmark… Click to enlarge. Time exposure (8s) so the ISS recorded as a trail. Quite pleased with that!

Dear Noctilucent Clouds…

Alright, enough is enough. Time to drag your sorry behinds out of bed, give yourselves a really, really good shake, and start shining for us UK observers. We know you’re up there because our friends in Norway, Austria and Germany have seen you and taken gorgeous pictures of you that they’ve put on t’internet for [...]

Another ho-hum NLC display…

Another night, another “Is that IT?!?” display of NLC… NLC, Kendal, June 25-26 2010 from Kendal Castle

Grrrrrrr…..!!

VERY frustrating night last night – hints of a lovely display of NLC going on behind a veil of murk and haze which soon turned into an impenetrable wall of cloud… got some nice pics tho, even if the naked eye view was absolutely nothing like this… More at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=182489&id=543617930&l=a523e1f360

Another night, another NLC display…

A beautiful clear night here last night, so come 01.00 off I trotted up to Kendal Castle again to look out for noctilucent clouds. And there was another display, but it was only a modest, subtle one, little more than a few thin bands and streamers parallel to the horizon in the NW sky. Still, [...]

A tale of two “displays”…

Last night I watched two “displays” of very different yet strangely similar types. First, I went along to the Brewery Arts Centre and, with a good couple of hundred other people, watched England play Algeria in the World Cup. It was an absolute disgrace, a shambling, shambolic, spiritless display of football from a team of [...]

More NLC…

If UK NLC-observers were at all worried that 2010 was going to be a lean year for displays of their favourite night-time glowing clouds, those worries have been dispelled. Last night/this morning there was another lovely display of NLC visible across much of the UK, and I saw it really well from here in Kendal, [...]

NLC? Definitely!

There was a very nice display of NLC visible from Kendal early this morning, which was well worth staying up for. I might suffer for it later, by teatime I might have bags under my eyes big enough to carry footballs in, but hey, that’s the charge the universe makes sometimes for seeing things like [...]

NLC! Finally! (I think…)

I think I finally caught a glimpse of NLC from here in Kendal at ridiculous o’clock this morning… I went up to Kendal Castle at 11pm, when it was actually drizzling (that’s dedication for you!) because I could see gaps in the cloud cover drifting slowly to the north and guessed it was worth a [...]

…and STILL no sign of NLC…

For the first time in what, maybe a week, the sky above Kendal cleared of cloud last night, so just after 11pm up I trotted to Kendal Castle, camera, binocs and digital radio in hand (well, over my back and in my pocket) to scan the northern horizon and hopefully spot my first display of [...]