Odd Sunbow

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Odd sunbow
Taken by Dan Upp on October 4, 2013 @ Roxbury, CT

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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure Time: 1/160
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2013:11:12 12:58:44

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I walked out on my deck last week and saw this beautiful sunbow almost directly overhead. But it seems wrong, as the position of sun (Mid afternoon) is to the right and down, thus "outside" the arc of the sunbow. ?????

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This would be from part of a Halo also known as a nimbus, icebow or gloriole its caused from the Sun or the Moons light and ice crystals

Posted by bbbd4u 2013-11-12 16:48:06

Perhaps its a circumzenithal arc. See this web page:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/common.htm
See the links at the bottom of the SpaceWeather page for Atmospheric Optics. A great web site!

DavidB

Posted by dob 2013-11-12 21:41:27

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