Paul
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« Reply #15 on: April 16, 2010, 08:47:45 pm » |
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Here's an interesting fisheye shot I took this morning - quite a bit of flare from the Sun, but not a single contrail!
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scott86
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« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2010, 01:52:38 am » |
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just a quick snap taken from my friends phone at stoneyford lake on the evening of the 15th
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martinastro
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« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2010, 10:35:51 pm » |
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markt
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« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2010, 02:17:15 am » |
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Great pictures all of you! I saw similar clouds to like what you described and showed this evening. This could be very interesting, I can't see the volcano and its effects disappearing any time soon, which means more volcsnic sunsets for a while yet!
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JohnC
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« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2010, 08:06:11 am » |
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the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano is heading right over the UK and airports are cancelling flights There is a danger from flying right through the ash cloud at a short distance - where the cloud is optically thick - but it takes a lot to stop a jet engine. The recorded examples of engine loss due to volcanic ash have been at ranges of tens of kilometres from the erupting volcano, not hundreds or thousands. Stopping flights in the UK is a gross over-reaction. OTOH if if means no contrails blotting out the sky, I hope the volcano keeps erupting forever! I agree,Brian OTT. What I don't understand is why flights to Europe or even the US can't take off and stay at ,say, 15-17,000 feet (the ash ,I believe, is at 20,000 feet) and then when clear of the zone climb to the 35,000 feet that the Trans-Atlantic flights travel at, same coming in, get well under the cloud,15,000 feet doesn't pose a danger I wouldn't have thought.What about the planes that us leave Southampton stay quite low and land at Dijon or even further south. Maybe it's my age but I've lost all confidence in authorities whatever body they are.
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markt
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« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2010, 10:35:28 am » |
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It's one of those no win situation for the authorities i'm afraid. They play the safety card like they are doing now and ground flights which annoys the heck out of people, however if they allow flights to resume and a plane comes down / suffers engine damage then they will get hauled over the coals for letting planes take off... They can't win.
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brianb
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« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2010, 11:19:36 am » |
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By the way has anyone tried to pronunce Eyjafjallajoekull ?? Eye-slandic volcano. I daren't even try to spell it.
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markt
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« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2010, 07:05:57 pm » |
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Very nice pics in that link John, thanks for sharing!
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« Reply #25 on: April 18, 2010, 07:48:10 pm » |
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Lovely images Paul, definitely volcanic ash clouds in there in the form of those NLC-type strips.
Looking forward to seeing what this evening's sunset will produce.
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« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2010, 05:56:36 pm » |
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Volcanic ash clouds in the sky here all day long, with halo too. They look like NLC bands and herringbone structure. Watch out this evening.
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