Sun Dogs & Parhelic Circles
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Sundogs can appear as bright coloured patches each side of the sun. Hexagonal plate shaped ice crystals in high cirrus clouds glint sunlight like jewels to produce the prismatic colours. atoptics.co.uk/halo/dogfm.htm
Spotted a sundog in the deep blue sky, and pumped up the colors just for revealing the full spectrum.
A sundog rides in high, cold cirrus cloud. Sunlight passing through hexagonal plate-shaped ice crystals makes it. atoptics.co.uk/halo/dogfm.htm
Visible ahead across the water is Fremont Island and Promontory Point.
It was a very happy surprise to see a sundog (parahelion, I think they're also called...) at that time of evening.
A little news (July 23): I've learned there's a sizeable lightning-caused wildfire that has started on the opposite end of the island since sometime yesterday. I could see that end of the island briefly in the distance from the high-point several days ago. It fills me with a strange sensation to realize that the view as I saw it is dramatically changed for now.
Rare atmospheric phenomenon, an extra sun... created by light interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere.
"Don't shoot directly into the sun" they said. Right. If I had listened to them, I wouldn't have gotten this shot.
Coming out of Ketch Joanne Restaurant & Harbor Bar after dinner just in time to catch this.
Pillar Point Harbor, just north of Half Moon Bay, California.
Sundogs, also know as parhelia, are caused by the atmospheric reflection of sunlight by plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals. They are often seen as part of a 22 degree halo.
This one caught my eye on the way home from work. The color was so vivid, I had to pull over and take a shot. Too bad the iPhone did not pick up the color as well as my eyes.
Solar Halos, Sun Dogs, Sun Spokes, Rainbows
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This sundog was obsevered while driving west of Greybull Wyoming on US310 near Little Dry Creek. A sundog is a concentrated patch of sunlight occasionally seen about 22° to the left or right or both sides of the Sun. Sundogs form when sunlight refracts through icy clouds containing hexagonal platecrystals aligned with their large, flat faces parallel to the ground. Technically known as parhelia (singular parhelion) they are often white but sometimes quite colorful, , with red on the inside, toward the Sun, and blue on the outside. Sundogs, like this one, can look like a detached pieces of rainbow.
Reference:
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-resources/astronomy-questio...
robin's alice, the littlest sundog with the biggest heart
has been lifted up to the rainbow bridge ~~ *
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The sun had hidden behind the cherry tree... but couldn't help letting some of its august malice filter to us...
Le soleil s'était caché derrière le cerisier... mais n'a pas pu s’empêcher de nous laisser filtrer un peu de son auguste malice...
Across a frozen lake. The sun, its reflection in the ice. Two coloured sundogs to the sun's right and left. The coloured rings near the sun are a corona produced by atmospheric ice crystals.
Fast moving clouds caused this atmospheric optical effect to last less than a minute. The brilliance and colors could not be adequately imaged.
Sundogs are fairly common in the winter here. Especially when it gets really cold... like today -30C.
Was rather beautiful with the mist, and a Parhelia this morning just after sunrise!
View from Haughmond Hill - Shropshire
This was a strange evening as the sun was setting, the sundogs appeared. The clouds were very different, thin, moving slowly across the night sky. Only two places, across from the sun, these rainbow colours appeared.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Stay safe and healthy everyone.
I captured this sundog in the sky across the rooftops, creating and interesting abstract shot. This is the first time I had seen this phenomenon. A sun dog is a bright spot that appears in the sky on either side of the sun, caused by the refraction (bending) of light through ice crystals in high cloud.