Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of observing and capturing these incredible iridescent clouds just after the sunset. I was sitting by my kitchen table, working on my latest self portraits when I saw this little cloud above the apartment building adjacent to mine, and I basically freaked out. These are somewhat rare and I am obsessed with skyporn so I immediately grabbed my camera and took one shot from the balcony. Then I hurried to put on some outdoorsy clothes and hauled myself to the cold winter air in the hopes of seeing more of these clouds.
I was very lucky and managed to see the best of this skyporn, which appeared and disappeared within 15 minutes.
Shot with the Nikon D7200 and Sigma 50-100mm f/1.8.
Pretty neat! I might have (but I'm not 100% sure I have) seen iridescent clouds. I've seen noctilucent clouds, though, and they're beautiful aswell.
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I think for us here in the north the noctilucent clouds are a bit more usual, especially during summer nights, but I don't believe I've seen these iridescent ones many times before either. I agree, both are beautiful!
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Kind of neat. Do you know what causes those unique colours?
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It's either tiny ice crystals in the clouds that act like a prism when the sun below the horizon hits them, or it's a mix of some chemicals.
Edit: I think you need a LIDAR machine to know exactly which one it is, but considering we are in the north, it's sub zero and we have pure air, I'd vote for ice crystals.
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Sounds legit and certainly looks that way.
Hope you're having a good weekend. 🙂
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The pictures are beautiful. You have beautifully blended the sun and the clouds :D
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Thank you :)
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Sky can make lot cool colors when sun go town or come up. I'm sure you was sit there and had tea also. 😋👌🤗
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I had wine actually, it was Saturday after all :P
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Ah 😅👌 this sounds more good. Red or white wine ?
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Riesling this time :)
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😋🤗👌
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What you've been doing, love?
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Oh you know, taking selfies, drinking wine, watching serial killer documents, the usual. How about you my favourite degenerate?
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Distinctively absent.
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