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Margaret writes:
'This is the view from the community centre driveway at 1am, looking
north towards the lighthouse. That would be 1am on Saturday, July 15.'
Remember we are in BST, so 1 am is when the sky is at its darkest.
Picture added on 21 July 2006
Looks like you photograhed some noctilucent cloud, even high altitude cirrus doesn't glow like that at 1 am. See: http://www.nlcnet.co.uk/ for an almost identical sky!
Added by Karl Cooper on 26 July 2006