Re: OT:Re: [APML] July Blues in the July Sky

["Stuart Heggie" <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

Great story! I agree, can't be Welsh and also because it doesn't have near enough consonants. Just
way too short a word to interest the Welsh.

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

Stuart
http://www3.sympatico.ca/stuart.j.heggie/Stuart.J.Heggie/
Flesherton, Ontario, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Anderson" <georgea@cam.org>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:11 PM
Subject: OT:Re: [APML] July Blues in the July Sky


> It may very well be of Scots origin. It has been RAF lingo since at
> least the 50's and became part of my vocabulary doing flight trials on
> Nimrods based in Inverness out over the North Sea. The aircraft
> commander would announce that we "Are going into the clag" and we would
> drop from our transit altitude of 10,000 feet down to 500-700 feet
> depending on the cloud ceiling and play around down there for five or
> six hours.
> Possibly one of our UK members can tell us which half of the kingdom it
> came from (I know it isn't Welsh, it has a vowel).
>
> George Anderson
> Montreal Canada
>
> Clear skies and good health
>
> Stuart Heggie wrote:
> >
> > Och! 'Tis a Scots expression I warrant! Ya gotta have a word for skies like that when you live
in
> > Scotland!
> >
> > Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.
> >
> > Stuart
> > http://www3.sympatico.ca/stuart.j.heggie/Stuart.J.Heggie/
> > Flesherton, Ontario, Canada
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <georgea@cam.org>
> > To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 2:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [APML] July Blues in the July Sky
> >
> > > Clag is a slang term for low cloud cover. The type associated with those grey
> > > dismal drizzle days where you can see the cloud features because they are so
> > > low.
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > > Clear skies and good health
> > >
> > > Quoting Chris Cook <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>:
> > >
> > > > Thanks George!
> > > > Please forgive the ignorant question but what do you mean by "clag"?
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > >
> > > > -----------------------------
> > > > Chris Cook Photography
> > > > www.cookphoto.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "George Anderson" <georgea@cam.org>
> > > > To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:41 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [APML] July Blues in the July Sky
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Great shots Chris, even more so since the framing was "blind".
> > > > > I get ticked off up here mainly because they usually happen when we
> > > > > buried under the clag. And then I see Jerry capture it from his front
> > > > > yard in Philly... That one really steamed me becuase I watched the K
> > > > > index rise in proportion to the red density on the weather radar images
> > > > > I was seeing.
> > > > >
> > > > > George Anderson
> > > > > Montreal Canada
> > > > >
> > > > > Clear skies and good health
> > > > >
> > > > > Chris Cook wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi all -
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here are my images from the auroral display back on July 26th/27th.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I could detect no color visually in the early display on the evening of
> > > > the
> > > > > > 26th or later that night (the27th) but was delighted to see the Provia
> > > > 400F
> > > > > > picked up an intense blue.  This is the first blue aurora I've captured.
> > > > > > Quite exciting!  All taken with a 24mm Nikkor @ f/2.8
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/aurora-072604-1.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/aurora-072704-2.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/aurora-072704-3.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So far I've logged seven displays since moving back here to New England
> > > > in
> > > > > > summer 2002.  I have to say, trying to capture them is very
> > > > addictive....
> > > > > > but can see how you guys in Canada would get annoyed at 'em.... <g>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Comments welcome!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Take care,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Chris
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -----------------------------
> > > > > > Chris Cook Photography
> > > > > > www.cookphoto.com
> > > > > >
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