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A display of noctilucent clouds, viewed from the flight deck of a Boeing 787 at 41,000’ over Northern Canada.
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Circumzenithal Arc spotted over Northern California, US
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On a journey along deep sand, Lynda's friend, Fayne Connelly, captured this view of the sand and the sky during a trip between the Savuti Plains in Botswana travelling to Zambezi Mubala Campsite on the banks of the Zambezi.
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Undulatus spotted by Dan's friend, John Maltese, from the shore of Lake Pleasant in the southern Adirondacks, Speculator, New York, US
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An elongated version of altocumulus lenticularis spotted over Dunkeld, Scotland
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Mesmerizing iridescence spotted near Blowing Rock, North Carolina, US
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Cumulus congestus over the Atlantic Ocean, viewed from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, US
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Sunset over Puget Sound near Edmonds, Washington, US
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Cumulus over Seaham, England
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Mammatus (Mamma) following a storm over Wilson, Wyoming, US
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A solitary cloud spotted amidst the blue sky over Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire, England
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Sunset over Kingsthorpe, Northampton, England
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As the plane began its descent, Rachel noticed a cloud that resembled a small, errant, and lonely tornado. This took place towards the end of a flight from Vancouver, British Columbia to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Cumulus framing up the blue sky, spotted over Cumberland Island, Georgia, US
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A plethora of altocumulus over Iligan City, Philippines
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Fog over Carolina Cloud Lake, providing a "blue" emphasis within the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Fairview, near Asheville, North Carolina, US
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An amazing shot, James. Don’t often get to see a sky like that so high up in the sky from an airplane at 41,000 feet and get it so accurately on what must have been a special night camera. Must have been close to the top of the troposphere and at the bottom of the stratosphere, where your were flying, where nearly all the clouds are made of ice crystals, cirrus clouds for example and the temperature is below -50 degrees. From Rebecca Hill
Thanks James for this most remarkable photo showing the famous noctilucent clouds glowing between the black sky and black earth. What a glorious shot!