Saturday, April 9, 2011

Optical phenomena

Look to the skies! A second sun has appeared overhead. Or is it just some optical effect? According to Wikipedia it is a Halo, so, nothing to get worried about. You can almost see the ring around the sun. Another reflection is off to the right, outside the cameras view. These halo's are due to ice crystals in the atmosphere. It wasn't a summer day, but it wasn't really cold down here.


There was also a rainbow halo around the sun and a reflection above that. Apparently, this is called a Circumzenithal Arc and appears due to refraction of light through ice crystals.



Very strange. Not something you see every day. Well worth a picture -- and a blog post -- on a very inactive blog.