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1 thought on “A lower tangent arc in diamond dust, spotted from a cable car, looking down to Grindelwald in Switzerland.”

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

    Pretty amazing, snowy, late-winter picture, John!

    Looks like you could almost enter the grand-arch rainbow diamond-dust cave entrance at the bottom of the mountain and enter into a cave system. The majestic mountain peaks almost above rise up to the cloudy heavens and appear to float on the lower-level stratus clouds gradually lifting due to the weak late-winter sun’s heat. From Rebecca Hill, Canberra, Australia

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1 thought on “A lower tangent arc and halo spotted over northern Kentucky, US.”

  1. Photo Editor avatar Photo Editor says:

    More information on the links about the lower tangent arc….

    https://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/tanim4.htm

    https://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/colsolat.htm

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2 thoughts on “Marc Laplante”

  1. Carolyn Johannesen avatar Carolyn Johannesen says:

    A “Lively” sky indeed. Surely there can’t be many people that have seen this :D

  2. Michael B. Davis says:

    Amazing unique photo. Looks like the aliens have arrived.

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2 thoughts on “Marc Laplante”

  1. Paul Laplante says:

    Didn’t know we had so much happening in the photo. Thanks for the details.

  2. Ian Loxley avatar Ian says:

    IanL….
    Many thanks to Les Cowley of Atmospheric Optics http://www.atoptics.co.uk/
    for the detailed identification.

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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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