This is the time of year. Silvery clouds light up the evening sky over Poland

Yesterday social media was flooded with photos of spectacular clouds visible long after dark in the late evening sky. Even the inhabitants of Warsaw had the opportunity to see something a bit.

What are silver clouds?

Spherical clouds are the highest clouds observed from the Earth’s surface. As mesospheric clouds, they are 75-85 km above the Earth’s surface. For comparison, it can be said that cruise passenger planes crossing our sky never fly higher than at an altitude of 12 km, and the Karmana line, the so-called the space border is at an altitude of 100 km.

Clouds are most often visible at the end of spring and early summer, when the sun does not hide too low below the horizon even after dark. The sun is hidden 5-15 degrees below the horizon, although invisible to observers on Earth, they are visible from a height of 85 km. For this reason, the sun’s rays emitted from the sun still illuminate the clouds from below. From Earth, therefore, they are visible as gently lit clouds in the dark sky.

It is not known where the water vapor comes from at such heights. Sometimes clouds form after the launch of a rocket, when the exhaust gases of engines operating at this height consist largely of steam. In other cases, these may be traces of the cometary matter burning in the Earth’s atmosphere or the passage of a meteoroid.

Last year, I accidentally caught such:

But yesterday silvery clouds have exaggerated. From what I see it not only prompted me to pull out the phone and photograph the evening sky. # nlc

Published by Puls Kosmosm. Saturday, June 22 2019

Where to look for silver clouds?

Usually clouds appear above the northern horizon, although two weeks ago they also appeared in the west. They are often accompanied by the bright star Kapella, which hovers just above the horizon.

It is worth looking for them every day on the northwest horizon after sunset, when it gets dark, or on the northeast horizon just before dawn. We do not need any instruments for observation. Eyes are enough. Perfectly.

What have we seen in recent days?

A brief review of social media indicates that many of you have seen the silver clouds in recent days. Below are the most interesting photos of Internet users.

Św pic.twitter.com/ZR8XBOgs1u were also visible in Świnoujście

– Krzysiek Grzybek (@ kgrzybek_91) July 1, 2020

# Gostyń last night and silver clouds, photo: Gostyń BackYard AstroPhotography. pic.twitter.com/qoaQcm7c0y

– meteoprognoza.pl (@MeteoprognozaPL) June 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/Florian_Vienna/status/1273007044744921089

@NLCalerts #NLC #block silver road from the S3 road in front of Szczecin. pic.twitter.com/HQ8p1MquU2

– PanWołodyjowski (@PanWolodyjowski) June 16, 2020

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Therefore, if the sky promises to be clear in the evenings, look out the window or go outside. Maybe you can see these exceptionally beautiful bright clouds in the dark sky.

This is the time of year. Silvery clouds light up the evening sky over Poland

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