NLC's 6-7th July 2004

Another fine display visible from my home location in Scotland occurred on the night of the 6th-7th July 2004. It first became apparent around 23:20UT on the 6th and improved steadily as the sky darkened and stratospheric cloud moved away by 00:35UT on the 7th. It was an excellent display with much structure present extending in azimuth from 280°-30° and elevation 30° at greatest. The display was active as the clouds changed appearance as the minutes passed and a feature not noted previously was an arc of light about 30° elevation centred in the NNW that moved with the sun (it was apparently not auroral) shown in the first image below.

Here are a few of my images, which were featured on spaceweather.com 8th July 2004.

	A view of the display with the arc above amongst the stars of Ursa Major; 8s exposure through a Nikon CoolPix 4500 @ 200ASA.
	Looking NNW, lovely structure present; 8s exposure through a Nikon CoolPix 4500 @ 200ASA.
	A boat passes by; 4s exposure through a Nikon CoolPix 4500 @ 200ASA.
	Another view; 8s exposure through a Nikon CoolPix 4500 @ 200ASA.

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