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THE bright cirrus-like clouds are very common here this summer. I have seen them here on the nights of the 12th, 18th, 20th, and 24th of last month, and on the 1st inst., also at Gilsland on the 27th ult., in fact I do not know that in the last fortnight there has been a single night on which the northern sky has been quite free from lower clouds on which they have not appeared more or less; sometimes, however, they appear but for a short time, and in a very limited area of the sky. I have tried to keep a watch to see them in the day-time, but have not succeeded as yet; the nearest approach to success was on the 20th ult., when I saw them as early as 9.22 p.m., at which time they were visible over the greater part of the sky, but in the south-east were not strikingly bright.
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BACKHOUSE, T. The Bright Clouds. Nature 34, 312 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034312a0
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