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Yes, a tapestry is exactly right!Sorus wrote:I can see that - possibly peacocks too, but dragons are more interesting. I can picture it as a full-length tapestry, which seems an odd thing to say about glass, but it's beautiful.
Ah, thought so. Thanks for the explanation. Love those pics, the first one has something that looks like a flying alien medusa and another figure with the semblance of a melting dinosaur. The cloud masquerading as a spaceship's great. Saw lennies for the first time in Iceland and thought they were...errrmm...rather cute.lurch wrote:Frosty,,Below are 3 pics taken June 23 there in Albkry. To answer your question, yes, mountains, hills and the air currents they cause, have everything to do with the strange clouds. The most common of these different clouds usually spotted around hills and mountains,,is the alto cumulus lenticularis...another way of saying,,a pretty high cloud that is shaped like a bean ( lentil)..They are smooth rather than cotton ball fluffy..and..generally, they are rather stationary,,Think of an ocean wave coming to shore. It rolls in and rises up and crests. Lenticular clouds are the crests of atmosphere rolling thru. The lenticular is formed by the moisture condensing out of the air because it is rising up to a colder temperature area. Cold air holds less moisture, so the cold air creates this cloud that has a lot of ice in it,,hence the smooth, rather than than the fluffy. But the atmosphere keeps moving and very soon the cloud drops to a warmer layer of air and the cloud moisture condenses back into the gaseous state of the atmosphere..So lenticulars condense out of the air and back into the air in a very short space. As long as that space doesn't move, the crest creating cloud making space, then the cloud doesn't move. It just pops out and pops back into the atmosphere in the stationary space. So the first pic is B&W of a few variants. Notice the smooth and the shapes and even the top one is dropping a virga tail( unusual ) and the one on the right is getting curved by the strong wind. So in that area the wind currents a pretty choppy, radical,,from running into the Sandi mountains and being forced to rise up to get over.
The third shot..is just inexplicable. It began as a classic lenticular ( lenny) ,,with the Sandia right there pushing the air up and creating a crest..classic..and then that cube formed up on the one end of it..Very strange,,but thats what mountain currents do and why its fun to keep an eye on the sky above mountains...What is even more interesting..is that whatever created the cube is also somehow related to the lenny above the cube.
Soar?Sorus wrote:That last one is clearly a spaceship.
Uuuuuu so shiny and pretty. O_O Mom loved those earrings; have you done anything alike with this translucent variant? I keep thinking you might put up an Etsy webstore if you enjoy making them. (So can I order some beads and maybe something for mom? Do the beads have any holes for a cord?)lorin wrote:
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Glad you found them interesting.lurch wrote:Once again WOW! Noctilucent shots are literally out of this world Frosty. The current belief is..they are formed from meteor smoke particles. They are the highest..some 80km high, on the edge of space. They form during summer best due to moisture levels increasing in the northern latitudes. Moisture plus smoke equals cloud. They normally form and are held to the arctic circle environs. That they are now being seen as far south as London England..may be indications of climate change.. Fantastic shots. If you care to..shots such as these..can be submitted to...Spaceweather.com and Cloud Appreciation Society, and Atmospheric Optics. Sooner or later one of them will appreciate your pics.
According to spaceweather.com the Baltic area witnessed a burst of noctilucents that night, and I found a heap of similar shots there. So I did catch some, yay! The following night was cloudy and now we had a massive thunderstorm, so no more cloudgazing till the weekend. Too late for me to skulk outdoors at that hour during workdays.
But, right, every latitude would have its specialties. First night on danlo's yard I went, "The stars are all wrong! Otava is too high up!" Soar is lacking in fluffiness, but that ship is cool nonetheless.Frostheart wrote:Soar?Sorus wrote:That last one is clearly a spaceship.
Aww, that reminds me of the rig I have for Noob Cat, who still doesn't get along with Director Donner. She's doing a good job of keeping me on my toes, because I live in a studio which is really just one room, though I have my 'bedroom' blocked off as her area. Every few days she manages to circumvent my DIY barrier and I have to figure out a way to temporarily outsmart her again.Damelon wrote:While I was gone, my cat gained a reputation:
Sorus wrote:That last one is clearly a spaceship.
This is spectacular!!!lurch wrote:Pueblo Sky
I saw an arguleh in the clouds the other day but was in a car and couldn't take a picture.
