Eye-catching night shining clouds - 12.8.2018 at 00.50 - 12.8.2018 at 03.30 Kempele Observation number 76704

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Jarmo Leskinen, Ursa (Pohjois-Suomi)

Another great night cloud show and now also includes northern lights. Now that the nights had already darkened, the night clouds appeared really bright. I started watching the screen after midnight and all the time the clouds brightened and expanded. In the morning when I looked at the allsky camera pictures then the clouds had only been at their widest after three at night and then covered almost the whole sky. A little annoying that he couldn't control for so long.

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Havainto
- Night shining clouds
Cloud coverage in the sky
- Covered 3/4 of the sky
Noctilucent clouds
- Waves
  
  Waves of noctilucent clouds are short, close groups of clouds.
  
  Wavy NLC by Jari Luomanen.
  
  NLC waves by Hannu Määttänen.
- Band
  
  Bands of noctilucent clouds are long, stripe like cloudformation.
  
  A single, very bright NLC band. Photo by Mikko Peussa.
  
  On the upper left corner, rising bands are clear on the image. Whereas waves of NLC cover the bottom right side of the image. Photo by Juha Tonttila.
- Veil
  
  The night cloud vail is a vague thin night shining cloud with no clear structure.
  
  Noctilucent cloud veil with one strong belt formation. Image by Veikko Mäkelä.

Brightness of the noctilucent clouds
- Eye-catching night shining clouds

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Eye-catching night shining clouds - 12.8.2018 at 00.50 - 12.8.2018 at 03.30 Kempele Observation number 76704