Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Polar Lights and Noctilucent Clouds in Kyiv

A green "cloud" between buildings are Polar Lights (Aurora Borealis): a quite unusual phenomenon for our latitude.
Picture taken 22 Jun 2015 at 23:07 (UT+3) in Kyiv. Direction: North-North-West.
Below the polar lights are noctilucent clouds.

The polar lights were moving to the west. Nine minutes later (23:16):
Then they quickly disappeared (approximately in 10-20 minutes).

A period of visibility of aurora was quite short. There were no evidences of it at 23:00, only subtle noctilucent clouds were visible:

*** Updated 26-Jun-2015 ***
High-contrast HDR version [1+0.5+2s]
23:07 EEST

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