How blue is the sky?

;-)

No planes = XDDDDDDDDDD

THIS IS ENGLAND

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ENGLAND

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs499.ash1/27265_672504344110_36910239_42458629_4307583_n.jpg

OH MY ENGLAND

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs519.snc3/27265_672504349100_36910239_42458630_351192_n.jpg

MAYBE A SLIGHTLY BETTER ANGLE Y/N BUT YEAH ENGLAND

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs519.snc3/27265_672504359080_36910239_42458631_3377747_n.jpg

YEAH WE GET THAT BLUE STUFF IN THE USA TOO SOMETIMES, L0U, BUT WE DON'T SNAP TOURISTY PHOTOS OF IT AND BIG IT UP LIKE WE JUST WITNESSED HALLEY'S COMET OR THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM OR SUMMAT

Haha, exactly. It's like the Patrick McManus story where he said his relatives from LA came to Idaho to visit him and, after he convinced him they'd be able to breathe outside their car, they were taking pictures of how invisible the air was.

he convinced him = he convinced his relatives

ha, the McManus story in turn reminds me of the E.B. White essay where he goes on a pilgrimage to Thoreau's cabin, and he bottles up some of the Walden Pond air for future use. on the plane ride home, he offers a bottle to some stuffy businessman, who goes into a coughing fit as soon as he takes a breath of the fresh woodland air.

the moral of these stories is, of course, congratulation to British ilxors for their rediscovery of mother nature.

AT least the top part of it.

aw cut me a break guys, this is SPECIAL

I'm with you on this one, LJ. Post more pls.

There aren't really any more unless you want to see yet more snaps of London Bridge station

...but if any of you guys have taken any

Volcanic sunset in the Peak District, Saturday evening:

http://parwich.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/ashsunset800.jpg

Many areas could enjoy a spectacular sunset. Eruptions usually created what experts call a ‘volcanic aerosol’ - a colourful mixture of ash and sulphur compounds - in the stratosphere. This scatters an invisible blue glow which, when mixed with the red light of the setting sun, produces a ‘volcanic lavender’, or vivid crimson/violet hue.

(Taken by my beloved, that one.)

T/S: English Sky vs American Sky

No planes = XDDDDDDDDDD

lllame

sorry to everyone who wished to fly planes but this thread is not for you

THE GREAT WIDE ENDLESS SOUTHWARK HORIZON EH GUYS

Montana can stuff it

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1103/1398184887_8f7026df7d.jpg

very nice! although you can see a few vapour trails in a couple...the point of this week has been the sheer unearthly bluenesss

hadn't even occurred to me to look up and appreciate no trails. but i'm almost missing the 'st andrews x' you frequently get in the north/north-east london sky.

The American sky is a nothing sky; it's been found out.

Was clear this weekend, but it's back to normal grey overcast today.
I blame the police helicopter that went over!

Saw a huge perfectly formed red crucifix above Chiswick High St once, formed by two vapour trails lit up by the evening sun.

I found this tremendously visually exciting but no one else seemed interested.

HE HAS PUT HIS SIGN IN THE SKY

oh, ok, wasn't just me then...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4528438998_9b0cd8d41f.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4527809693_514355f463.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4528445244_37cba6a7d9.jpg

(brackenbury village area, hammersmith)

^^^^amazing

also the ash gave the sun a sort of fuzzy, hazy quality without decreasing its brightness - which made everything even more psychedelic and wondrous

the point of this week has been the sheer unearthly bluenesss

oh,sorry, right you are...how about this? Nice bit of Leicester architecture included free of charge.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2506/4150662247_63935a55c9.jpg

(really need to read threads before posting)

aw cut me a break guys, this is SPECIAL

Agreed. This is what it look like normally round these parts.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1132/997378892_f5f73d4912.jpg

This sort of luminous blue really is a superb colour isn't it (xpost)

BAN PLANES

Is this a thing b/c England is so small? A sky free of contrails seems pretty normal to me but if there's one thing we gots in Amurica, it's airspace.

we don't need to tip the airspace everytime we see it though.

koogs, i can't view your flickr stream.

Or do all of you just live underneath airport approaches?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airstrip_One

can you see the embedded images? (i can, obv, and i thought they are visible if you embed them using the flickr static addresses regardless of privacy settings)

have made them public now anyway.

English sky is a 24/7 airport approach - to have that taken away and some of the most insane April weather in the history of Aprilness granted is kinda happy-making

> Or do all of you just live underneath airport approaches?

i think the plane altitude matters - i don't see any contrails on the heathrow incoming flightpath, maybe because everything's too low by that time. i do see them on the heathrow departure flightpath though - ascent is much steeper.

wikipedia: Exhaust vapour trails or contrails usually occur above 8000 metres (26,000 feet). where the temperature is below -40°C (-40°F).

I live about as far as it's possible to be from an active commercial airport* in the UK (roughly equidistant from 4 of them at abt 60 miles away) and it's pretty unusual to get a completely contrail-free sky. It's probably a lot more so nearer airports, though - I'd admired the empty blueness of the sky lately but hadn't stopped to think why it was unusual until this thread.

(* tried to choose my words carefully as we do have an airfield on the edge of town with the grand total of 2 commercial flights a week. considerably nearer to some air force bases but most of the air force traffic over this area seems to be either first thing in the morning or late evening, not throughout the day)

My friend in Southall rang me today and said that all of her relatives living directly under the Heathrow flightpath can't believe their luck and are dreading the return of the noise.

Wow. In that case I really appreciate your skies this week too! In my memory, jet trails are rare and exciting b/c they're signs of the larger world in which people I don't even know are going places far, far away. lol Midwest.

I'd admired the empty blueness of the sky lately but hadn't stopped to think why it was unusual until this thread

I had a sudden epiphany while playing cricket yesterday. My teammates were treated to some Keatsian musings.

We're on the approach to EMA and BHX. I guess we see planes going to Manchester and Scotland too. We don't hear much noise but there's rarely a sky without a plane in it. UNTIL NOW...

taken on a summer morning in chicago:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2489/3815763251_eb37ede738.jpg

there are often planes visible at very high altitude over london, probably transatlantic flights to/from holland/northern germany i'd guess?

nice pics everywhere. yeah me and my friend were talking about the no vapour trails thing at the weekend, unfortunately neither of us had our cameras with us.

i live forty minutes away from manchester airport so yeah, we noticed it all right.

also after watching plenty of sunsets lately, i had never realised how fast it happens!

Britain From Above: GPS traces of the 7500 aircraft that traverse Britain daily (with ~1 minute video)

Most scheduled flights, even apart from terminal airports, follow flight lanes defined by navigation aids like VOR stations, with rules (such as northbound flights fly at odd-multiples of 1000 feet) to aid traffic separation. And parts of Britain over military facilities are restricted airspace.

Britain gets a lot more traffic than you might expect from usual map projections of flight routes, as it lies under great circle routes from Europe and the Mid-east to North America.

tomorrow may well be the last day of clear skies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-4TB47N3_Y

<3 nature on some 60s art school acid trip

Thanks for that link, Sanpaku. I'd wondered before about the Bristol<->Belfast flight route seeming to have almost a 90 degree bend in, and how very occasionally they take another route which is no more direct - guess the big gaps in the allowed airspace explain that.

My coworker is not pleased, as he'd booked a flight on Saturday. He's hoping they'll let him fly by this weekend, or his girlfriend will have outstayed her visa.

And I'm not pleased, cz I had to work on my birthday (which I had been hoping to take off) to cover for his leave, but now he's moved his leave. Oh well.

One more before normal service is resumed. From my patio.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4537564106_cb7b924868.jpg

19. From Oksanka
Hello, Andrey! Tell me, what eye color do you like? ))) Thanks for the answer)))
Arshavin: The color of the sky, blue sky.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4537604288_d1428c7d18.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/4536972925_15b3df20df.jpg

(i zoomed in for that last one, can you tell?)

Ha, I did one of those too! Mines a different blue though...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2761/4537561714_27cb524163.jpg

that's more white with a 'this photo is currently unavailable' motif

ooops...try again
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4537626318_8c4ebf146c.jpg

(looking at mine more closely, there's a semicircular graduation of colour centred on the bottom middle. i wonder whether this is a function of the sky or my camera)

Could it be your screen? Even looking at it "original" size I can't see anything bu beautiful pure blue.

(no, i was using gimp and the magick wand with the threshold set to 1 and seeing what it selected. to my eyes it's just blue, to gimp's it's 1284 different blues)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/njsouthall/4632438649/sizes/l/

Hmph.

fail.

this it?
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this it?
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Yes!

a+

oops, I thought I had typed an "Is" as well, but it's gone.

A+ picture

lol A+ xpost too