Tailer's Family - journeying!
Project: Sweden - Gothenburg
No. 1 - 5 Going to Gothenburg City.
From Stansted Airport
Flight no. FR964 at 07:00 on September 5th, 2007.
Glory.
when I prepared this to show you I did not enhance it atall so this must be what it would have looked like from outside the plane!
- in order to see this striking phenomena the Sun must be directly behind you, as it casts a shadow on to a layer of cloud. The glory, which looks like a series of rainbow rings around the shadow, is produced by cloud droplets reflecting, refracting and diffracting sunlight, although the exact optics are still not fully understood.
One of the easiest places to spot a glory is from that great cloudspotting location, the window of a plane. It can sometimes appear around the plane's shadow, cast on to a nearby layer of cloud or fog. When the cloud's some distance away the shadow is absent and you just see the coloured rings.
The Cloud Collector's Handbook - Gavin Pretor-Pinney
To see Large:
farm3.static.flickr.com/2768/4103799947_36281d4c7e_b.jpg
Taken on September 5, 2007 at 08:33 BST
Project: Sweden - Gothenburg
No. 1 - 5 Going to Gothenburg City.
From Stansted Airport
Flight no. FR964 at 07:00 on September 5th, 2007.
Glory.
when I prepared this to show you I did not enhance it atall so this must be what it would have looked like from outside the plane!
- in order to see this striking phenomena the Sun must be directly behind you, as it casts a shadow on to a layer of cloud. The glory, which looks like a series of rainbow rings around the shadow, is produced by cloud droplets reflecting, refracting and diffracting sunlight, although the exact optics are still not fully understood.
One of the easiest places to spot a glory is from that great cloudspotting location, the window of a plane. It can sometimes appear around the plane's shadow, cast on to a nearby layer of cloud or fog. When the cloud's some distance away the shadow is absent and you just see the coloured rings.
The Cloud Collector's Handbook - Gavin Pretor-Pinney
To see Large:
farm3.static.flickr.com/2768/4103799947_36281d4c7e_b.jpg
Taken on September 5, 2007 at 08:33 BST