Photos of Clouds and Skies (That you took yourself)

[FatPhil]

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That's a funky effect. However, I'm assuming pretty much all of the "stars" are just hot pixels?

 

[Trailblazer]

View attachment 89297I took this yesterday with my phone. A short window of great lighting before sunset.

Looks like altocumulus castellanus. Often a sign of some disturbed weather on the way. I usually associate them with summer thunderstorms after a hot day.

 

[Todd Feinman]

Y'all may already know this book.
We used to have it at my old work:
Cloudspotter's Guide. Maybe you are members of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
Amazon link

 

[Giddierone]

 

[Mechanik]

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X marks the spot where you will find... Venus?

 

[Trailblazer]

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Did you ID the planes? Would be a good test of the Sitrec contrail upgrade!

 

[Ann K]

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Scotland thanks you.

 

[Giddierone]

Did you ID the planes? Would be a good test of the Sitrec contrail upgrade!

Maybe this one going bottom left to top

right. And FR2340? A few mins earlier.

 

[Todd Feinman]

Just took this a few minutes ago.

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

Contrail casting a shadow

 

[Trailblazer]

Crossing contrails are ten a penny but this is the first time I recall seeing two distrails making a classic X.

It was even clearer when I first spotted it but had spread out a bit by the time I could get into position for a photo.

 

[JMartJr]

this is the first time I recall seeing two distrails making a classic X.

That must confuse the Heck outta our friends over in the chemtrail community. Perhaps some secretive group of good guys flew a couple of planes through there with a big vacuum cleaner aboard rather than spraying equipment, and sucked up some of the Evile Chemicals (tm)?

 

[jarlrmai]

More likely Elon Musk bought the chemtrail company

 

[Trailblazer]

Contrail shadow just before sunset.

And an upper tangent arc (I think) shortly before that:

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

More shadowy contrails

Some rainbows in wispy clouds

And some clouds that look so much like clouds it almost looks fake.

 

[Alytha]

You just photoshopped "The Simpsons" out of that one, admit it!

 

[Trailblazer]

A good day for clouds here with lots of towering convection mingled with clear blue skies and altocumulus.

This plane perfectly crossed the sun from my vantage point and was silhouetted against some iridescence.

Edit: I should add that I couldn't even see the iridescence with the naked eye. This is an unedited phone photo (apart from being cropped), I was just seeing if I could get a good silhouette but the sun was so bright I was basically shooting blind. An earlier one in the sequence had even more lens flare madness going on… this is unedited again.

 

[derwoodii]

clouds with a captured orb or UAV