Very rare colorful clouds
Taken by Göran Strand on December 29, 2017 @
Handöl, Sweden
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Yesterday, one hour before sunset, I did see some colorful clouds in the opposite direction of the Sun (At the Anti solar point). I never seen colored clouds there before so I had a hard time figuring out if they were polar stratospheric clouds or iridescent clouds.
When I returned home I contacted Les Cowley at OPOD (http://www.atoptics.co.uk) to get his opinion of these clouds and he guessed that it's tropospheric iridescent clouds. He's never seen them opposite the sun before.
The colored clouds slowly faded away as the sun set so I thought it might be iridescent clouds, but I never seen them opposite of the Sun before. Would love to hear if anyone else seen this before.
Always exciting to see a new phenomena, perfect ending for 2017 :-) Happy new year everyone!
Photographer Göran Strand, Sweden
http://www.astrofotografen.se
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Photographer's website:
http://www.astrofotografen.se
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