Cirrus Rainbow

[Charles Allison]

Shot these around 2pm today.
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[Aaron Kennedy]

Hard to tell (can't see the location of the Sun), but the first picture looks like a classic sun dog and the second a parhelic circle.

Check out this website on atmospheric optics.
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/common.htm

Aaron

 

[David Schuttler]

I saw this to the left (south) of the sun as I left work. Almost pulled the camera out but got lazy, glad to see the pic. I missed the rainbow effect though.

Caught a few sunrises like the first pic this month, always a neat thing

 

[David Schuttler]

Had some more "sundogs" today , even a double

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[Charles Allison]

I saw those to. Nice shot on that doulbe one.

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[Morgan Palmer]

I wonder what natives in the Amazon or maybe on some Pacific island wondered when they saw a jet contrail for the first time.

Sure would have scared the hell out of me!

Very nice pics BTW>

mp

 

[Laura Duchesne]

Charles, your second pic reminds me of one of my pics. I believe it's called a supralateral arc. I love seeing optical phenomena in the sky. I've seen some nice pillars but have yet to grab a pic of one.

My supralateral arc and 46 deg halo and sundog 2nd pic from bottom.

http://free.angeltowns.com/laurawx/photos1.html

Here's an atmospheric optics photo gallery you might be interested in as well.

http://weather-photography.com/gallery.php...xpand=light_ice