Stuart Brooks wrote in message
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If anyone's awake in Scotland look to the north for a fantastic
noctilucent
cloud display. Sky goes from deep dark blue abruptly to strong bright pale
blue clouds. At the boundary are very clear wave formations, these may be
presence/absence of cloud waves but it may well be that the wave peaks are
just high enough to catch the sun and the troughs are not.

Yeah, we got a good view of this from northern Cumbria last night. The bit
to the north was a bit hard to see as there were things in the way, but
there was a nice display in the western sky as well. My pix aren't as good
as yours, but here's one anyway, looking across the Solway to Scotland.
www.caneseats.plus.com/stuff/noctilucent02.jpg

I can't persuade my partner that there's anything special about noctilucent
clouds. He seems to think it's just the sunset lighting up ordinary clouds.
How can I educate him? Is there a good website I can send him to?

ally