Glory - aircraft shadow with full rainbow caused by sun shining on clouds
Taken by Caleb Elliott on March 5, 2016 @ Approximately 18000ft
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Date Taken: 2016:03:05 13:50:44
 
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The sun was at the right angle as we descended into Philadelphia in an embraer 170. The sun cast the aircrafts shadow on the clouds but the cool part is the rainbow around the shadow. Pilots refer to this as glory. An even cooler note, you can tell the approximate location of my seat based on where the center of the rainbow is radiating from. I was in seat 1A.
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It is not a rainbow. It is a glory ( http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/glorair.htm ). Nice picture.
Posted by mila 2016-03-06 16:48:02
 
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