Observations of object "Atmospheric"

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Observations of object "Atmospheric":

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Jul 21 01:30:00 2021 UT   Obs. no.: 2277

Last evening, the smoke from the wild fires in the west arrived at my home here in Connecticut. I pointed my infrared thermometer up at the smoke cloud & it read 62 degrees. This means the base of the smoke cloud was just a few thousand feet above me do the a high that was depressing the cloud down to our lower atmosphere. Both the setting sun & the moon took on a red color. The smoke is finally moving out today.

This evening, my brother Bob, my friend Joe & I were able to enjoy a nice rainbow. There was a purple stripe just below the rainbow also. It was a good show.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Sep 16 00:15:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2193

For the last 2 days & nights, we on the east coast have had high altitude smoke from the west coast wild fires. I took my infrared thermometer & pointed up at the thick smoke to see what the temperature would read. The temperature I recorded was just 10 degrees which means the smoke was 25,000 feet or more up in the sky. I plan to take another reading tomorrow night.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Sep 16 00:15:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2192

For the last 2 days & nights, we on the east coast have had high altitude smoke from the west coast wild fires. I took my infrared thermometer & pointed up at the thick smoke to see what the temperature would read. The temperature I recorded was just 10 degrees which means the smoke was 25,000 feet or more up in the sky. I plan to take another reading tomorrow night.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Thu May 21 00:20:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2156

Last evening, I photographed the sunset without realizing I had photographed the green flash. It was lime green & it only lasted a few seconds. This was only my second sighting of the green flash.

Last evening, after a rain shower, I observed a nice rainbow. When I put on my polarized sunglasses, I briefly saw four rainbows before the three faint rainbows quickly faded away. In the polarized sunglasses, the rainbow was very bright & from now on, I will always wear my polarized sunglasses when viewing rainbows.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 2018 UT Obs. no.: 2059

This evening, I was treated to a great lightning show as a thunderstorm passed by. The lightning produced different shapes & all the lightning bolts were orange rather than yellow. This was near sky astronomy at its best!

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: other Location: Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Time: Fri Jul 28 16:00:00 2017 UT Obs. no.: 2017

While on vacation in Saratoga, my friends Rich, Dave & I observed a fairly rare site. There was a thin layer of high altitude clouds. A high flying jet left its vapor trail behind for a long distance. The sun was just to the vapors trail's left side & this caused a very dark shadow right next to the vapor trail. As the vapor trail started to dissipate, the shadow became dimmer & dimmer. Wow, another astronomy first for me.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: East Haven, Connecticut, United States
Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Fri May 26 23:30:00 2017 UT   Obs. no.: 2007

This evening my friend Alicia & I saw a great rainbow. It's been awhile since I saw a really nice rainbow.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Mon Jul 18 20:00:00 2016 UT Obs. no.: 1976

Last Monday afternoon, my friend Suezie & were watching a severe thunderstorm when we saw a rare scudnato. Severe Storms often produce low hanging scud clouds which occasionally form in such a way that they look like tornadoes. Scudnatoes are quite harmless even though they look very ominous. The difference between a tornado & scudnato is a tornado will spin violently while a scudnato will just sit there motionless. It was quite a sight for both of us.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Tue Jun 14 21:00:00 2016 UT Obs. no.: 1974

Yesterday, while on the road. I saw five planes attempt to right a message in the sky. It has been many years since I saw skywriters attempt to do a message. I could see that they briefly succeeded in writing the message but before I could get closer, the upper winds quickly washed out what was written. So to sum it up, it took five airplanes to write a message that remained visible for two minutes.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Oct 7 23:15:00 2015 UT   Obs. no.: 1958

Last evening, I watched the results of a rocket launch from Wallops Island Virginia. The rocket ejected Strontium & Barium into the Stratosphere which resulted in a pale blue circular cloud forming in the sky. The cloud then faded away after about a minute. It was quite a show. I also observed an Iridium Flare.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: good   Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Sep 4 23:30:00 2015 UT   Obs. no.: 1956

Last night, my friend Steve Borer & I saw what is known as airglow just after sunset. What we thought we saw was very high altitude Noctilucent Clouds but it wasn't clouds at all. We checked with Space Weather & it turned out that we saw was an aurora like airglow 90-100 kilometers up. The air glow looked like a wavy cloud because gravity waves made the air glow look like that. It's not really understood how an air glow forms but it is a rarely seen phenomina. We were able to watch it for 15 minutes & then it just melted away. What a sight it was!

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Time: Thu Jul 30 17:00:00 2015 UT Obs. no.: 1952

On July 30th, while vacationing in Saratoga, I saw a tornado. I was sitting on the motel balcony watching a thunderstorm when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a week tornado moving from my right to a position directly in front of me. When it did reach that position, the tornado fizzled out. I don't usually right about atmospherical phenomena but this was really something to see.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Mark D. Schneider (e-mail: markd_s@yahoo.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: Garden Grove, California, United States of America
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Nov 1 15:10:00 2014 UT   Obs. no.: 1937

Rainbow seen at this location in the Northwest and it became slightly double in the North for about 30 seconds...a RARE sight.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric, est. to be in Cassiopeia)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Feb 1 07:30:00 2011 UT   Obs. no.: 1864

Last evening, Joe Cseh and I enoyed a faint aurora. For fifteen minutes we were able to view the curtains of the light green aurora. We also observed a -2 magnitude meteor and a-4 magnitude irridium flare sattellite. It was a very enjoyable fifteen minutes.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Mon Sep 1 23:45:00 2008 UT Obs. no.: 1798

For the last two evenings I have been observing bright orangy sunsets due to a volcano erupting in Alaska. These colorful sunsets are being seen around a good part of the world. Also this evening I observed faint noctulucent clouds in the northwestern sky. These clouds faded away quite rapidly.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Sun Jun 8 20:00:00 2008 UT Obs. no.: 1789

Yesterday while enjoying a lightning and thunder storm from my deck, I saw a lightning bolt that was a complete spiral. It almost looked like a target. I have never abolt of lightning formed as a circle before and I doubt that I will ever see one like that again.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Seeing: fair
Time: Mon May 5 21:45:00 2008 UT Obs. no.: 1779

Last evening I observed two mock suns 22.5 degrees on either side of the sun. Each mock sun had the colors of the rainbow and they were quite bright and obvious. These mock suns can be seen any time in the late afternoon or early evening if ther are Cirrus Clouds in the sky.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Mon Mar 17 17:00:00 2008 UT Obs. no.: 1769

This afternoon for a period of fifteen minutes I had the bluest sky I've ever seen. The dark blue sky extended all the way down to the horizon from 1:00 PM to 1:15 PM EDT before returning to its normal blue color. Usually when the sky is dark blue the horizon part of the sky is still a paler blue. I've have never seen such a blue sky before in my life. It was very interesting.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Wed Mar 12 21:45:00 2008 UT Obs. no.: 1767

This evening when my friend Steve Borer and I were walking on the beach for good health, we noticed some very bright crespicular rays in the sky. Some of the rays were bright and others were dark as the result of the sun's shadow. It was quite a sight.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Thu Oct 25 20:50:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1723

This afternoon I observed a mock sun to the right of our own sun. Cirrus clouds caused this to happen. The mock sun had the colors of the rainbow in it and it was quite a sight. As winter approaches these mock suns will be a much more common sight in the sky.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: New Britain, Connecticut, United States
Time: Mon Sep 3 18:30:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1706

Yesterday, my brother Bob and our friend Tony attended a minor league baseball game. During the second inning a huge well formed dust devil formed in the bullpen of the opposing team. It looked like a small tornado and it enveloped the opposing relief pitchers as they sat in the bullpen watching the game. The dust devil then moved to the grassy area and disapated. This was the best formed dust devil I've seen since the ones I observed in Vietnam during the dry season. It was quite a sight.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Sun Aug 19 18:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1698

Today while I was at a Civil War reenactment I noticed jet contrails across the sky with shadows caused by the contrails running along side the contrails. The further the contrails were from the sun, then the farther the shadows were from the contrails. This is the first time I've seen shadows caused by jet contrails ever.

Atmospheric (Atmospheric)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Seeing: good
Time: Mon May 14 18:15:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1654

This afternoon while I was outside, I noticed what are called Wave Clouds in the sky. These clouds looded like waves that are cresting. This was my first time I ever saw them.

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