59º North August Presence

[Magpie]

What about noctilucent crown? (Crown only one syllable.) Imagery of wonder/dome/covering/summit/high point/majesty/brilliance/sparkling jewels.

And knowledge of a crown goes straight to the imagination, rather than have the reader wonder what zenith means.

Hi John, I love your suggestion and the reasons why it would make sense and the subsequent implications, but I think that I complicated matters a bit by saying 'zenith' at all when 'noctilucent clouds' very rarely, if at all appear at the zenith, ie the point of space directly above the observer. I think I must have a weakness for the word 'zenith' because I have used it before and always thought it to be quite poetic whereas it's probably more astronomically convenient than poetic. The poetic option would definitely be your suggestion for crown, I think I'll definitely be storing that concept ready for a later date.

On a sidetrack point (something I seem to be doing a lot of recently for some reason)... the past few weeks I've been aware of and connecting so many words to Magus and so many connected forms like magic, magi (3 wise men), magistrate, majesty, magisterial and on and on through magnetic and more, and just when I read your post now I thought I'd found another diverse version of it in 'imagination' which would seem to make so much sense that it couldn't be anything else... I mean 'I' and 'Magi', but alas no, etymology has let me down again and much like the zenith is way over my head.

Anyway cheers for reading and the excellent suggestion,
I'm going back into therapy to enable me to write shorter comments.

Cheers,

Mark