Ok, here are some screenies of what I see for comparison.
We should have been over target at in game time of ~20:05 and it should have looked like this:
Later on, at about 20:35 or when we should have been about 2/3rds of the way to the French coast, like this:
For the darker ones, I recommend you full screen the image and zoom in to eliminate the glare and competing contrast of the bright white forum page background; you'll get a better understanding of how much more is visible, and whilst still dark, should be far more reasonable to be asked to fly in than the conditions that some of you were experiencing.