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WTF is that in the sky?!! (Noctilucent clouds over Brixton!)

laptop said:
It is possibly the Sun - which is in the North-North-East at the minute - to light up some very, very, high cloud?
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I would have said that was more likely. Sunrise is only 4.43am right now, so the sky would be starting to get light well before that.
 
I've had a word with my mate at the BBC and he's going to "investigate"

I've got a few other pics from last night so I'll see if I can post them up later.
 
wiskey said:
i think it is the northern lights, i've been tracking them recently and its not unusual for them to come as far south as streatham.

and there was a bit of a blip in the geomag readings this morning.
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This photo from that site look similiar to what I saw:

20031030_gilmour_109-0935a_IMG.med.jpg


http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/pho...30/tn/20031030_gilmour_109-0935a_IMG.jpg.html
 
Editor: why don't you send the pics to the BBC or Met Office?



sorry, you've already said that. Machine's going slow
 
kingmaker said:
I would have said that was more likely. Sunrise is only 4.43am right now, so the sky would be starting to get light well before that.
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Yeah, but nearly two and a half hours before?!!

I saw the lights first at around 2.20am, but they could have been in the sky for some time before that.
 
miss minnie said:
http://www.zenlan.com/images/misc/aurora_over_matanuska_glacier-animated.gif
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Minnie_the_Minx said:
Absolutely. Have you never seen them on tv?

"Aurora borealis are always moving because of the constant changing of interaction between the solar wind and the earth's magnetic field."
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It moves, sure, but doesn't Aurora Borealis really just jiggle on the spot as opposed to move in a specific direction (east, as ed describes)? :confused:

Nice clip BTW Miss Minnie. :cool:
 
wiskey said:
i think it is the northern lights, i've been tracking them recently and its not unusual for them to come as far south as streatham.

and there was a bit of a blip in the geomag readings this morning.
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yeah - there was an aurorawatch alert for that area a week or so ago wasn't there, wiskey?

I think it is the northern lights - beautiful :)
 
PieEye said:
what's that Iemanja?
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Magnetic Poles switch ;)

Guardian linkity link

yay, found it in article above:

The Earth's magnetic field also stretches several hundred miles into space and protects us from the sun's charged particles and cosmic rays by focusing them towards the poles. This is where they appear as the northern and southern lights as they excite gases in the atmosphere. As the magnetic poles migrate across the world, those night lights are going to light up some very strange places where they have never been seen before. During a field reversal, this protective magnetic shield is going to be weak and might even disappear for a century or more. That might drastically affect the weather
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editor said:
Yeah, but nearly two and a half hours before?!!

I saw the lights first at around 2.20am, but they could have been in the sky for some time before that.
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Don't forget sunrise is just that-the sun actually getting above the horizon. I remeber from my night-clubing days it gets light at ground level before that, and the sky starts to get light earlier still. The way they gradually moved east in the sky too- it does fit.

Thats where my money would be, but I wouldn't be betting very much of it!!! :D :p

Be interesting to see what the BBC's weather boffins make of it.
 
skunkboy69 said:
Thats a fantastic pic !!
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It is, but the more times I look at it, the more it reminds me of my mispent youth walking home from Newcastle Mayfair rock nights to Sunderland in the early hours of Sunday morning. 11 miles (yes I was mad), 4 hours and nowt to do but walk and watch the sky get light.

That is the midsummer sun lighting the very early morning sky-I'm becoming increasingly convinced of it.
 
kingmaker said:
It . 11 miles (yes I was mad), 4 hours and nowt to do but walk and watch the sky get light.
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Often easier than getting a taxi in Newcastle on a saturday night I find though :D
 
PieEye said:
Often easier than getting a taxi in Newcastle on a saturday night I find though :D
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I couldn't afford one- I used to live like a pauper all week, then all my spare cash went on train fares to Newcastle and admission to the club! Mad as a hatter I was......memories.......anyway OT....back to the subject in hand.

Even the shade of blue looks right for the morning sky. I'm off for the w/end so someone let me know what the BBC say.
 
kingmaker said:
That is the midsummer sun lighting the very early morning sky-I'm becoming increasingly convinced of it.
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Well, the BBC said that they're going to run the picture on BBC London News on the 1.30pm and 6.30pm shows and see if anyone else saw it or knows what it was.

I've seen zillions of sun rises from this vantage point, but this is the first one I've dragged Eme out of bed to look at - it really was very, very unusual.
 
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