Rainbow Around The Sun

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rainbow around the sun
Taken by Elaine Poulsen on October 18, 2017 @ Stephenville, Texas, USA

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I looked up and noticed there was a sort of rainbow around the sun, in one section there were colors like a rainbow. Sony DSC-HX300.

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Actually it was not a rainbow, which has its origin in water droplets, but a solar halo, generated by tiny ice crystals of which the high clouds are composed. You can distinguish two different forms of halo: a section of a circular halo centered around the sun, and a bright arc tangent to the circular halo in a point above the sun. Not present in the images but also often seen members of the halo family are the sundogs. Or moondogs, when appearing by moonlight.

Posted by pphv 2017-10-19 03:09:07

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