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Mel Gigg, a friend not in the CAS went out last weekend to capture images of the comet. The results are stunning and I asked if he minded me posting the results in this forum. Best explain what happened from his Facebook page:
“Time lapse of Comet Neowise taken from the Kingstone Field to the North of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
I set up five still camera’s alongside some astro friends just after sunset and we soon located the comet in the fading twilight. Four of the camera’s with lenses from 50-200mm were on fixed tripods and the fifth with a 300mm lens was tracking the comet on my Astrotrac. Each camera had to be checked regularly for battery power, card space and exposure drift. My friends had to leave and I was contemplating packing up but then the most stupendous noctilucent cloud display kicked off and totally upstaged the comet making it one of the most memorable nights of my life.
I recorded 13,500 images totaling 210gb of data what you see in this time lapse is less than a quarter of it.”Hmmmmm. Very interesting ‘H’.
Have to admit that I had to look up apophenia as it’s not part of my regular vocabulary. I think I would have to disagree because I would see the flowering daffodils as an actual effect of the fohn wind rather than my observation of a randon occurrence that I attribute to the wind.
But you could well be right. Perhaps it’s my perception of reality that’s skewed.Thanks for posting these links again. I missed them the first time around.
Having had a scan of them they look like interesting reference material. Thought provoking as well if so inclined. Page XIX (my favourite number) revealed to me that clouds are hydrometeors. I find the origins of words interesting and strangely I had never thought of meteors to have anything to do with weather (I’m obviously blind to ‘meteorology’). Perhaps it’s because my wife is into astronomy that I’ve only really thought of meteors from space, while the first definition in the dictionary is of course ‘any atmospheric phenomenon (now rare)’
Well, ‘H’, you set me a challenge a few days ago and I think I have to agree with Graham’s suspicion that Sc cas had been airbrushed out. Loads of Ac cas – more than you can throw a stick at. But no Sc cas.
Having spent more than a few minutes scanning the ICA Vol II I am struck by the beauty of some of the pictures. Many worthy of the CAS Gallery. In particular the Cirrocumulus stratiformis undulatus on P.117. The photo of Ground Fog on P.176 by R.K.Pilsbury is I think a work of art.
R.K.Pilsbury – I couldn’t help but notice that R.K.Pilsbury took plenty of photos for the volume, over 20. It looks from the locations that he worked for the Met Office at least from 1972-82. I note as well from Amazon that he wrote Clouds and Weather (1970). I wondered if you know of him Graham?
Hygge, thanks for posting that link to the ICA Vol II. I’ve not seen the ICA before and appreciate being able to check out the photos with detailed explanations.
With reference to the mammatus, you may have already seen that they appear as an ‘extra’ feature of other cloud types. Going through the book they appear on pages 27 (Stratocumulus stratiformis) and pages 47 & 48 under Cumulonimbus. I also note that in The Cloudspotter’s Guide they appear as ‘Supplementary Features’. So not actually a species in their own right. I saw my first example only last year right over our house at the tail-end of a thunderstorm. Very impressive.
Thanks for the update Gavin. You’ve actually called my bluff because I don’t know what photo I want to use! Tell you what. Give me two weeks to make up my mind and then I will try out the new fix. But thanks for the offer anyway. Cheers.
Hi Hygge. Followed your link and I think cloud watching definitely falls into the category of hygge – or is it hooga?
Helen – How did you get your photo onto your profile? I’ve looked and looked and can’t see anything on the profile to enable me to do it. It’s probably easy when you know how.
