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Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

Whangarei

Very quiet on the CT front up here. Very warm and humid. Several jets sighted this morning flying from South to North without a hint of a CT. Some colour noticed in high cloud formations.

Azimuth

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

John and Melody, I forgot to mention that your photos from your Northland expedition are fantastic (from a photographic perspective). I had no idea that CT activity was so prevalent further North.

Boy processing all those images would have kept you both busy for a considerable amount of hours.

Nice job documenting what is occurring north of Whangarei.

Regards
Azimuth

John Anderson · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 2:09 pm Post Subject:

Thanks Azimuth,

We're very impressed with your stuff also, great to see it all together in one gallery.
Now, to somehow encourage others to share their trail images from other regions.
Hopefully we'll get to do the captions from the Northland trip soon, it's a time consuming task - just finished the Kaimanawa Wall captions last night. This photo essay is probably a good example of how we'll handle other mysterious places. This category is to be a most important part of Mysterious New Zealand. We've got about four backed up to do and a few others to make the subject of future expeditions - all in the fullness of time... :shock:

BTW took some pics of Tane Mahuta on the way back, including a vertical panorama consisting of four shots in landscape format (381 MB file!). We may get a very large print done from it at some time. Also got some pics of a DOC worker abseiling up the tree, they were gathering seeds. Might post some examples...

We also might create a gallery soon for (non-mysterious) favourite photos if there is a demand for it. :-k

Regards

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

The past week ending 20 Mar 05 was reasonably quiet, mind you I've been stuck in a classroom all week. The weather has been rather poor as well. This weekend saw a couple of small fragmented CTs that formed into cirrus type clouds which persisted for hours.

For the last two evenings running I saw large CTs east of my location and many miles away, both of these were photographed.

It is quite probable that the one I saw on Saturday evening was part of the same CT observed by Bloodhound and Carus over the North Shore!

Today saw some unusual high cloud formations which were also photographed.

I have posted these to the Photo Gallery.

Keep Looking Up
Azimuth

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

WEEK ENDING 27 MARCH 2005:

On reflection it has been a fantastic week for me in that on 24 Mar I was fortunate enough to be witness to the rare phenomenon apparently known as a “Hole Punch Cloud.” I was also able to photograph the event and display the images on this site. I doubt I will ever see another occurrence like this in my life time, but stranger things have happened.

Saturday saw some Chemtrail activity with two trails being laid within half and hour of each other along the same NNW/SSE vector. These both developed into Chem clouds and persisted until I lost sight of them over an hour later.

A couple of matters that concern me in the images below are:

If the cloud canopy is altocumulus cloud which from research I believe form from 6,500 to about 23,000 feet and we are led to believe “contrails” only form at very high altitudes above 30,000 feet, then why is this CT forming at all. In the larger version of the photos the CT can clearly be seen below the altocumulus cloud. As is the resulting Chem Cloud.

If indeed these are altocumulus clouds, this would indicate these jets were flying at a relatively low altitude, in any event lower than we are told “contrails” should form! Surely not! One would presume that the airspace above or at least below 30,000 odd feet around and near Marsden Point Oil Refinery would be restricted airspace for obvious reasons.

Then again are these cirrocumulus clouds pictured? These form at around 16,500 to 45,000 feet.

A Metguy would be invaluable to this forum. Oh well back to the cloud charts.

The same CT nearly thirty minutes later.

50 minutes later, an innocuous looking cloud that persisted until it went out of sight:

Also there was Chem activity over the Kai Iwi Lakes, Dargaville area at the same time. Family were holidaying there and reported it to me on their return yesterday afternoon. They photographed everything and I mean literally everything apart from the CTs……….aaargh.

Keep Looking Up
Azimuth

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

I took the photo beneath on 30 Mar 05 at 1823hrs. It shows a maturing CT, this one was travelling from an East to West direction which is highly unusual with other CT's I have seen up north here. Unfortunately I did not actually see this trail being laid and photographed it during a work break. It was massive and I would dearly have loved to have followed this one and taken some better shots. Unfortunately when I left work it was very late and too dark.

Carus asks the following question in a Photo Gallery comment:

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

Hi All,

It has been threatening to rain on and off all week up here, the clouds are loaded but refuse to drop.

A couple of CT's which persisted and turned into “cirrus aviaticus clouds” (CT clouds) featured below were photographed on the 9th and 10 April.

I know there were many more CT's above the low cloud cover during the week which I only got the occasional glimpses of.

An unusual swirling cirrus cloud was photographed on the 28 March and is on the Nephelococcygia thread here:

https://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?t=186

Keep Looking Up
Azimuth

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

21 April 2005

Awoke to this scene this morning. Taken at 0755hrs, there is the obvious CT in the foreground and possibly several others in the background!

Keep Looking Up
Azimuth

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

WEEK ENDING 7 MAY 2005

No CT activity observed until Sunday 1 May when over a 4 hour period six persistent CT’s were photographed.

Later that afternoon dirty fawn coloured alto cumulus/cirrocumulus clouds were observed in the distant North and West of Whangarei. A forest fire in Kaitaia may account for this phenomena north but not to the west.

At long last much needed rain has been falling on and off all week.

The two images below were taken about 0925 and 0938hrs Sunday 1 May.

Keep Looking Up

Azimuth

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

WEEK ENDING 25 SEPTEMBER 2005

It has been very quiet on the CT front up North here lately, mainly due to the inclement weather although I have observed a few very quickly dissipating contrails. The last persistent CTs observed were on the 6 and 8th of Sept. The one on the 6th was massive and persisted for many hours along the east coast. Unfortunately I was at work and could not get a photo of it although my camera was in my vehicle.

Here are a couple of other persistent CTs, the first was photographed on 27 July at about 0914hrs, both trails were laid within minutes of each other and persisted for several hours.

The second image was taken at a local sports ground on 9 July at about 0830hrs, this was one of six persistent CTs observed this day.

http://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=29&pos=169
http://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=29&pos=83

Keep an eye on the sky

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.....................Azimuth

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

WEEK ENDING 26 OCTOBER 2005

I spent the weekend in Paihia, Bay of Islands. Up at 0615 and sat outside to watch the sun rise. During the course of the day from about 0645 to 1500hrs I observed 10 contrails being formed. Eight of those lasted 10 seconds or less, two lasted 2 minutes or less. The one featured below lasted several hours eventually drifting over the horizon. One other persistent contrail was also observed but I did not see that one being formed. The majority of the aircraft were flying from a NNW or SSE direction.

Taken into the sun, 15 Oct at 1214hrs above shops on the waterfront, Paihia.

………..…….Regards
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......................Azimuth

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

I have not seen a persistent contrail up this way for months which is uncharacteristic for this area. In fact I can only recall one other since I saw Carus's "semi circular contrail" as reported some time ago. Although I have seen quite a few quickly dispersing contrails during this time.

I have observed a noticeable decrease in the amount of air traffic over my little patch of paradise and am looking forward to seeing Johns air traffic route chart when it is published here.

Cheers
Azimuth

Melody Anderson · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:56 pm Post Subject:

That's very interesting Azimuth, given how prolific they have been up your way at times.

Our chart is very close to publishing now. We have been gathering information on this for a long time and are in the final stages of confirming the flight paths with Flight Explorer observations...

I am thinking of publishing several formats, including a very large PDF file and will make an announcement as soon as downloads of it are available...

Azimuth · Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 318

Looking forward to seeing the info Mel. I am heading further up North in the next few days so will see what is happening up there.

Regards
Azimuth