Summer months at high latitudes are the best time for seeing noctilucent clouds: they look like wisps of blue/white smoke and change over tens of minutes - in #Leiden we’ve just started our season, and I always look to the North at midnight for these high altitude (60km!) ice crystal clouds.

Thin white clouds over electrical pyolons against a midnight sky, deep twilight from black to deep orange at the bottom.Bluish white noctilucent clouds showing bright mackarel patterns against a dark twilight midnight sky.

Matthew Kenworthy @kenworthy