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Cumulus over Twisp, Washington, US
"Someone was painting the sky while I watched," as Anabelle described, when she viewed this skyscape over Exeter, Devon, England
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Cirrus cloud formations from homogenitus via prior contrails, which Dan spotted when he was on his way to a Green Bay Packers football game earlier this year, as he travelled through Madison, Wisconsin, US
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Sunset on the longest day of the year, seen over the Wye Nature Reserve, Kent, England
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Cirrus vertebratus, which Sabine also views as her stairway to heaven, spotted near Halde Hoheward, Herten, Germany
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Cirrus that appear to have developed by way of homogenitus via contrails, spotted over Wythall, England
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Contrails interwoven like DNA, spotted over Arlington, Washington, US
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A giant fish was seen when Kate looked up at the sky over Hadfield, Derbyshire, England
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A contrail reaching across the sky over Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Cumulus and contrails in the sky over Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
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Sunset along the Danube River in Europe
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A distrail, short for "dissipation trail", occurs when an aircraft passes through a cloud and it turns the water droplets in the cloud into gas or ice. This distrail is seen slicing its way through a layer of cirrostratus over Kianga, New South Wales, Australia.
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Cirrus being intersected by a contrail during the morning hours over Devanahalli, Bangalore, India
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Remnants of a contrail over Lake Stevens, Washington, US
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A cirrus "flower" spotted over Somerset, England
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A 22-degree halo with an intersecting contrail, spotted over Rufford, West Lancashire, England
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