This night has been one of the very best recently. First of all there's been a really great birthday-camping-meeting, where we gathered at Klosterneuburg for an evening-to-morning relaxed hang-out. After going to bed, which meant sleeping under the open sky, i realized at 03:00 am, that my sleeping bag was getting wet due to kondensation. When I got up to think about the next step, i realised some very faint, white-ish milky glow in the far north-east right above the horizont. That made every alarm-clock in me ring like hell and, likely waking up everyone, i started to search in a decent hurry (...) for my camera, to confirm what i thought of. After taking the first pic it was clear -- my first ("knowingly") NLC-sighting ever!! After years and years of sporadically biking to the northern end of the danube-island at night...
The pictures were taken in between approx 03:00 and 03:45. In reality the contrast wasn't that high, and the NLC not that pronounced (long term exposure improves the visibility), but it was still a very clear and great display!
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| Detail of the "northern wing" | ..and the "eastern wing" |
..I'm really happy, great night with great people aaand the first NLC-sighting :-) More to read about NLCs: wikipedia [de, en], meteoros.de