atmospheric optics

Early Autumn at Glen Affric

Photos from an afternoon trip to Glen Affric, my Nice Place™, in early autumn.

Late in the afternoon I caught a ferry from Oban out to Mull. Several times in the voyage, the light

For the second time, I was lucky enough to see the aurora from Perth, last night. It was quite an

Noctilucent (“night-shining”) clouds are a rare phenomenon: the highest clouds in the atmosphere, at altitudes between 47-53 miles, consisting of

It’s one of the more common atmospheric-optical phenomena, but I still had to stop and admire this ring of colour