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SUNSET SKY SHOW: Want to
know what tonight's sunset will look like? Take this photo, and
shift the Moon about three inches to the left:
Photo details: Canon
Rebel XTi, 85mm lens @ f/4, 60 sec exposure, ISO 100.
Doug Zubenel of DeSoto,
Kansas, took the picture yesterday, July 16th. It features the Moon,
Saturn, Venus, Regulus and "don't forget 31 Leonis," he
points out.
Twenty-four hours later, the Moon has shifted to form a new ensemble.
Will it be as pretty as last night's? Take a look: sky
map.
more images:
from
Oscar Blanco and Borja Tosar at Riazor Beach, La Coruna, Spain;
from
Mike Salway of Central Coast, NSW, Australia; from
David Hough of Wallsend, NSW, Australia; from
Zhen Jie of Singapore; from
Mohammad Javad Fahimi of Kerman,Iran; from
Hanif Shoaei of Tehran, Iran; from
Pavol Rapavy of Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia; from
Richard McCoy of Mead, CO; from
Alan Friedman on the banks of the Niagra River, NY; from
Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre at Annisquam Lighthouse, MA;
from Tunç Tezel
near Bolu, Turkey; from
Todd Hargis of Austin, TX; from
Boris Stromar of Zagreb, Croatia; from
Elias Chasiotis of Markopoulo, Greece; from
Serdar Hepgul of Istanbul, Turkey; from
Neil Kad of Burlington, VT;
NLCs INVADE PENNSYLVANIA:
"I was walking out to my car around 9:30 p.m. on July 15th
when I looked up and saw a creepy noctilucent cloud," says
Jeffrey Berkes.
He dashed back inside, grabbed a camera and clicked:
This is a perfectly ordinary "nightshining"
cloud. What's interesting
about it is its location: "I live in West Chester, Pennsylvania,"
says Berkes. Normally, noctilucent clouds inhabit high latitudes--Alaska,
Canada, Scandinavia. But every year in mid-to-late summer they begin
to creep south. "This is my second sighting in mid-July,"
he says. In recent years the clouds have descended as far as Utah,
Colorado and possibly even Virginia. Wherever you live, watch the
western sky one to two hours after sunset. If you see electric blue
tendrils spreading up from the horizon, you may have spotted a noctilucent
cloud.
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Noctilucent Cloud Gallery
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