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Noctilucous Clouds

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THE recent communications in NATURE in relation to apparently self-luminous cloud-like bands in the skies after nightfall, call to mind the analogous phenomena of noctilucous clouds involving the whole visible firmament.

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    JOHN LE CONTE

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LE CONTE, J. Noctilucous Clouds. Nature 40, 544–545 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040544d0

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