I've just come back form an hour of kite-flying on the North Downs. For
most of the hour I was flying, there were a bright pair of sun dogs (now
I fly regularly again, I see lots of halo effects, etc.), but from 16:10
to 16:30 (UT) there was also what I can only describe as daytime
nacreous cloud. A large oval-ish (10* x 5*) patch of cirrus about 5*
above the Sun, which was itself settling into the unusually thick murk
above Ashford.

The iridescence, almost entirely cyan and magenta, was easy to see
without sunglasses, and was blindingly obvious with. Nacreous clouds,
AIUI, only occur when the Sun is below the horizon, so what was this I
saw?

And did anyone else notice this?

Best,
Stephen

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