Sky art

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 @ 20:24:07 UT
added by Edoardo in norway oslo perlemorskyer personal sky

A few weeks ago I saw the first spectacular sky phenomenon since I'm here in Norway.

No, it's not an aurora borealis but something else equally stunning and beautiful.

The norwegian word for them is perlemorskyer: polar stratospheric clouds aka nacreous clouds.
It seems that these phenomena are quite rare, so I consider myself lucky to have seen them live!

I wasn't prepared for them, so I didn't take nice pictures, but at least these photos have the particularity to have been taken in daylight, and not during twilight as most of the great photos you can see in Flickr.

Take a look also to this amazing photos my colleague Claudio took in those days and shared with the mankind!

Now I'm looking forward to see the midnight sun next August when I will travel far north to Svalbard for a short trip!

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  1. Thu, 14 Feb 2008 @ 17:22:29 UT
    posted by giovanni from Italy

    dal vivo devono essere veramente belle da vedere

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