Asperitas Cloud, formerly Undulatus Asperatus

An amazing sky taken off the deck of a rental home in Hanmer, NZ.

 

NASA wrote me and asked if they could use this photo as their Astronomy Picture of the Day. I naturally said YES!!!! Here's the link: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130227.html They said they get about a million views a day... Posted Feb 27, 2013.

And then on April 17, 2016, they posted this photo again.

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160417.html

And yet again on Aug 19, 2018 : apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180819.html

 

In March of 2017 "Asperitas Cloud" (with an i) was officially designated as a new cloud formation. The name translates approximately as "roughness". It is the first cloud formation added to the International Cloud Atlas of the World Meteorological Organization since cirrus intortus in 1951.

See asperatus in wikipedia or

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/n...

 

Another milestone -- 2000 Flickr favorites total on May 21, 2013

Another milestone -- 2500+ views and 100+ favorites on a single day!!! Aug 7, 2014

Milestone: 200,00 views on Flickr January 22, 2017

Done