Dear Robert, Here in Asheville, NC we have gotten several Auroral displays during the last year. My guess is that the "cloud" may have been a Southern Aurora. There has been a lot of Sun activity of late, perhaps you have seen another phenomenon as interesting (and perhaps more rare) than a Shuttle launch. Yes Auroras do often look like "clouds" down here, not like the Alaska-type "curtain" shapes. I come from Michigan, where the Auroras are quite stunning, and I seem to be a little more adept at identifiying them than the "locals". Just a hunch. Other brains more sophisticated than mine could tell you if the upper atmosphere (where real clouds live) would still be in Sunlight that late. -- Tom Troszak, Asheville, NC, USA 35.601 N, -82.554 W mailto:tom@bullhammer.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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