Strange lines in the western sky
Taken by Rod Holbrook on October 2, 2015 @ Manitou Beach Michigan
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  Camera Used: GoPro HERO4 Black
Exposure Time: 30000000/1000000
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2015:10:02 21:58:56
  
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Taken with my gopro set at 30s exposure, these lines were all through the western sky
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Nice capture. my guess is light pillars
Posted by 1simb2 2015-10-03 00:52:40
The light pillars guess is right. The images represent reflections of distant earthbound light sources in a thin cloud layer which obviously exists of ice crystals with horizontally oriented faces. So actually we see a halo phenomenon, not induced by sunlight but by artificial light sources however.
Posted by pphv 2015-10-03 05:03:59
would these have shown as far away as Indiana from Michigan? I posted these pics to the weather channel site as well and someone in Indiana reported seeing them as well.
Posted by Roddy65 2015-10-03 16:26:02
If the reflecting cloud veil is in high atmospheric levels (as halo-generating clouds commonly are), they may reflect light sources even from behind the horizon. The reflections (light pillars) will appear then at low elevations in the sky, just as can be seen in the images.
Posted by pphv 2015-10-04 00:20:03
 
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