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[Elgol Skyscape]

A view looking South South West across the croft land of the village of Elgol. If you see white dots on the ground they are probably sheep!

Daylight and weather permitting, the island of Rùm is visible in the distance. The hills on Rùm are approximately 14 miles away and the highest, Askival is 812m (2,664 ft) high, which can help give an idea of the cloud base.

The camera is mounted 3m up our anemometer mast. The straight lines across the image are guy wires.

If the sun is within view then it's probaly not as dark here as the image might suggest! In mixed cloud & sunshine, the automatic exposure control could make it almost look like night in the middle of the day. Between late March and early September in 2011 we experimented with a different angle, pointing the camera ESE instead. That reduced the sun effect for at least parts of the day, but in the end we decided that this SSW view was just plain better, both visually and in terms of weather data.

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