noctilucent \nok-tuh-LOO-suhnt\, adjective:
Visible during the short night of the summer.
So Sax would sit on the Western sea cliff, rapt through the setting of the sun, then stay through the hour of twilight, watching the sky colors change as the sun's shadow rose up, until all the sky was black; and then sometimes there would appear noctilucent clouds, thirty kilometers above the planet, broad streaks gleaming like abalone shells.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars
The shells of 155-mm howitzers whistled away through the dark air, orange flashes popped like noctilucent flowers on the western ridge of Hon Heo Mountain and disappeared shortly after, and then the sound of explosions rumbled through the ground.
-- Junghyo Ahn, White Badge
Noctilucent entered English in the late 1800s. It is a combination of the prefix nocti- (which means "night") and lucent (which means "shining").
夜光\ NOK-tuh-LOO-suhnt\，形容詞：
可見在長夜短的夏天。
所以薩克斯會的西方海崖，全神貫注的坐在通過太陽的設置，然後留通過的黃昏時刻，看的天空顏色的變化為太陽的影子上漲了，直到整個天空是黑色的;和然後有時有會出現夜光雲30公里以上的行星，鮑魚殼一樣閃閃發光的廣泛條紋。
- 金Stanley魯賓遜，藍火星
155毫米榴彈砲的砲彈呼嘯著穿過黑暗的空氣，橙色閃爍夜光花一樣殺出漢許山西部山脊上消失後不久，然後通過地面隆隆的爆炸聲。
- Junghyo安貞煥，白色徽章
在19世紀末期的夜光進入英語。這是一個前綴nocti（這意味著“飛人”）和朗訊（即“閃亮”）的組合。
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