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2 thoughts on “A lower sunpillar, sub-sun and sub-parhelion spotted at 35000 feet over Missouri, US.”

  1. Patrick Dennis avatar Patrick Dennis says:

    Thanks Rebecca. I fly a lot over the central US and this was the third time in the last 18 months that I was fortunate to spot a subsun and subsun sundog at altitude with a thin layer of cirrostratus at or just below the plane.

  2. Rebecca Hill avatar rebeccahill@iinet.net.au says:

    Most interesting picture, Patrick!

    Don’t often see this particular cloud phenomenon seen from 35,000 feet up in a plane. Looking carefully at the photo, it almost looks like the sun is reflecting off of a thin layer of see-through icecap, through which one can see mid-level mackerel-sky patterned Altocumulus cloud, similar to pack-ice on a vast ocean below.

    From Rebecca Hill, Canberra, Australia

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2 thoughts on “Peter Leenen”

  1. Laurence Green avatar Laurence Green says:

    Well said, Ginnie. I fully agree with your appreciative comment. Lovely photo and something to marvel at “real time”.

    Laurence

  2. Ginnie Powell avatar Ginnie Powell says:

    This is a stunning photo, Peter, with the clear blue sky and the almost mysterious clouds that look more like boulders in a fast moving stream.

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The Eiffel tower spotted on a flight to Mallorca from Frankfurt, actually nowhere near Paris. They are in fact examples of sub horizon ice halos. A subsun with a lower sun pillar plus a 22 degree halo and a lower tangent arc. Many thanks to Les Cowley of Atmospheric Optics for his assistance in identifying […]

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3 thoughts on “The Eiffel tower spotted on a flight to Mallorca from Frankfurt, actually nowhere near Paris.They are in fact examples of sub horizon ice halos. A subsun with a lower sun pillar plus a 22 degree halo and a lower tangent arc. Many thanks to Les Cowley of Atmospheric Optics for his assistance in identifying this phenomena”

  1. Maria J says:

    Wow that is extraordinary!!
    Thank you!

  2. Jochun Ho avatar Jochun says:

    Great shot, very informative, too. Thanks Ian.

  3. John Norris says:

    Great photo Ian, very well spotted indeed!!!!

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2 thoughts on “Identification labels for previous photo. (Thanks Les)”

  1. Øivind Moen, Stavanger, Norwa says:

    This photo is very good. Still don't understand it, but I do feel a bit smarter. (Thanks Ian and Les.)

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6 thoughts on “Halo and shimmering Sundogs from Saalbach, Austria.”

  1. ad-logos says:

    It is so easy to pass by the beauty of the unexpected
    Because it is the unexpected we cannot capture nor ever fully understand.
    There are those, fortunately, who are trying to understand it by taking a picture of the unexpected.

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    It is so easy to pass by the beauty of the unexpected
    Because it is the unexpected we cannot capture nor ever fully understand.
    There are those, fortunately, who are trying to understand it by taking a picture of the unexpected.

  3. ad logos says:

    It is so easy to pass by the beauty of the unexpected.
    Because it is the unexpected we cannot capture nor ever fully understand.
    There are those, fortunately, who are trying to understand it by taking a picture of the unexpected.

  4. ad logos says:

    It is so easy to pass by the beauty of the unexpected
    Because it is the unexpected we cannot capture nor ever fully understand.
    There are those, fortunately, who are trying to understand it by taking a picture of the unexpected.

  5. ad-logos says:

    It is so easy to pass by the beauty of the unexpected because it is the unexpected we cannot capture nor ever fully understand. There are those, fortunately, who are trying to understand it by taking a picture of the unexpected.

  6. ad-logos says:

    It is so easy to pass by the beauty of the unexpected
    because it is the unexpected we cannot capture nor fully understand. But, fortunately, there are those who try to understand it by taking a picture of the unexpected.

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