Roll Clouds

[iceman (Mike)]

How cool is this!?!?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060117.html

[h0ughy (David)]

saw something like that yeesterday when the storm came through, no camera to take a picture, but it was a smaller version of one of those

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

AHHHHHH brings back some nice memories

[ving (David)]

thats quite some formation

[JohnH]

The most famous of these clouds lives right here in Australia, flying gliders is my other hobby and riding this is one of the ultimate flights, check this out:

http://www.dropbears.com/brough/index.html


And no I have not made that trip (yet)...

[DRCORTEX (Lance)]

Andrew

Motorised 8" F/7.1 Dobsonian | 2.3m Domed Observatory [for sale]| Telrad | Dave EK DSC (minus the encoders)
CURRENT PROJECT: Testing and initialising motors on scope..
WANTED: EQ6+SS for 8" scope
http://www.theastroweb.com/astronomy | http://www.saweather.net | http://www.severeweather.asn.au

Does this mean the project was a failure ? or do you have a second scope

ciao

Lance

[rumples riot]

Yeah saw one here in Adelaide when I first got back in 1990. Heaps of Hail too. i think I took some shots of it at the time, must have a little look for. They are awesome to see.