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Another amazing photo of planet Jupiter’s complex and truly amazing cloud structure, courtesy, NASA’s Juno spacecraft:-
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180605.html
Image released on NASA’s APOD website.
Laurence
My pleasure, Gavin, to share this enthralling story with all CAS members including your good self.
I was aware that when I posted this news story it was a wee bit out of the realm of our own planet. That said, there are rainfalls and clouds, so to speak, of a different genre to that we witness here on Earth.
By the way, I was so, so pleased about the success of your USA tour. Grand stuff! Well done, dear Sir.
It was great to read from the CAS Newsletter that the tour was so well organised and helped out, big time and most kindly so, by other CAS members to make the visit top hole.
Best wishes, as ever, from me. Keep up the good work!
Laurence – CAS member 29440
Thanks, Hans, for your kind comment. I am glad the posting I made was to your liking.
The NASA APOD page is updated daily. Besides covering matters astronomical it also gives excellent coverage of our Earth bound clouds. Well worth looking at, say, once per week.
Laurence
Hi Hans
Thanks for your welcome reply.
I have a big love of butterflies (Lepidoptera) and Moths as well as ocean fish.
Oh, yes! Manta Ray and Flat Fish have always been a true love of mine of things in the deep sea.
One of my big wishes in life before I “peg out” is to encounter, for real, a Manta Ray fish. Such gentle and graceful creatures with spectacular ease of swimming the waters. I am a hopeless swimmer, by the way! I sink into water like a heavy brick.
Laurence
I like this new thread and I am sure there will be interesting photos to come. It never ceases to amaze and amuse me how clouds take on the things we know etc.
The one of the Goldfish I like – to me, it is like a butterfly.
Laurence
Hello Keelin
Thanks very much, and kindly so, for your informative newsy reply which you relate.
I sincerely hope that your meeting with Gavin P-P augers well. He is a great chap and a wonderful speaker. When he talks he has, I think, the ability to charm birds off from trees kindly and welcomingly so into his own hands. He has a gift of speaking to an audience.
Could you, please, when you meet the good man pass onto him my honoured thanks, on my behalf , for the creation and foundation of the CAS. It is a unique thing and forms much of my daily life. I would appreciate it very much if you could do so.
Via the CAS I have met and engaged with some really lovely folk and have email contact on a regular basis although far away in other countries..
Best wishes, as ever, to you, Keelin, and the same again for your meeting with Gavin. Keep us posted, ok.
Laurence
Margaret & George,
Greetings.
Thanks for the appreciative comments – always most welcome.
Here is another photo of Jupiter’s cyclonic storm systems as photographed by NASA’s “Juno” spacecraft. The “clouds” are simply amazing!
One cyclone alone might encompass the whole of Earth. Remarkable image! I am very gald we don’t get these cyclones, many at that, here on our planet.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180308.html
Best wishes.
Laurence
Not exactly cloud related but something to marvel at. I hppe CAS will allow this posting.
Starlings cause a road block because of gathering in heavy numbers upon a road in Norfolk, UK.
The video is very short.
Laurence
Hello Gavin
Thank you for the update about members not being able to view photos upon the Photo Gallery.
I can now see photos posted as of 16th February but cannot, sorry to say, be able to post a comment upon a photo submission. I guess this a matter still awaiting resolution.
Laurence
Not quite a Blue Flash but have a look at this remarkable image of a Cloud eruption taken, by fortunate chance, over the skies of China. The image comes from NASA’s APOD page:-
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160823.html
Laurence
Truly a staggering image of the Moon!
From NASA’s APOD page:-
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180209.html
Just marvel at the “clouds” emanating from the Sun during eclipse! This shot took a huge amount of time and planning etc. What a fantastic result, eh?!?
Laurence
Here is a contribution from me about the amazing murmorations of Starling birds.
Yes, I know and have considered, with respect, Starlings can are at times a real a nuisance and an aerial plaque, especially to keepers of livestock etc where they cause havoc, mess etc and really big problems in all sorts of ways.
Here is a video footage of the Starlings in fantastic aerial ballet. No need for ATC (Air Traffic Control) – these creatures do their flights without any collision and perform aerial acrobatics which surpass, with supreme ease, the aerobatics of the worlds foremost aerobatic teams.
Laurence
Oops! I forgot to include this useful link in my earlier posting.
For those who are interested about when a Blue Moon appears you might find this useful. It is a Blue Moon calendar.
http://www.moongiant.com/Blue_Moon_Calendar.php
Sorry for the goof on my part.
Laurence
Supplementing the previous posts, for which I am grateful, here is a bit more info of a rare event.
From BBC News:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42817785
Blue /Blood Red Moon 31st January 2018 – a very rare event.
Laurence
Hi Deborah
Welcome to the CAS. I hope you find your membership very enjoyable and fulfilling!
May I, please, offer this useful link to the BBC’s Weather Watchers website? It is totally free and, thanks be, devoid of advertising and irksome annoying pop ups. WOW!!!! Registration onto its website is very refreshingly easy – and no commitment.
Here is the link:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weatherwatchers
Best wishes.
Laurence
