Bright night shining clouds - 19.7.2021 at 01.40 Espoo Observation number 99718

Visibility IV / V

Eemil Pietilä, Ursa (Etelä-Suomi)

I was photographing Jupiter through a telescope as I saw spectacular night clouds behind my back. I dug my cell phone out of my pocket and grabbed this. I adjusted the contrast of this image a bit so that the lights would not dominate. One day you have to come with a camera for the night clouds.

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Havainto
- Night shining clouds
Cloud coverage in the sky
- Covered 1/4 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.

Brightness of the noctilucent clouds
- Bright night shining clouds

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Bright night shining clouds - 19.7.2021 at 01.40 Espoo Observation number 99718