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Laurence Green says: A remarkable shot, Tom.
This is the first example of sun dust and sun pillar that I have seen. What a sight this must have been for you to have captured this and share with us.
Thanks kindly.
Laurence
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Laurence Green says:
Well said, Ginnie. I fully agree with your appreciative comment. Lovely photo and something to marvel at “real time”.
Laurence
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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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10 thoughts on “Ron Scholl”
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Never seen even a picture of this before – wonderful image! And Ian – thanks for the link.
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Mary Gray says:
Beautiful, incredible phenomena and with two deer at the same time! Excellent composition – great picture!
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Ron Scholl says:
PS, website administrator: as you can see by my inadvertent ‘anonymous’ submission and the one by Andrew Kirk, the submission guidelines are unclear!
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Ron Scholl says:
The difference between a subsun and sundog seems to be a technicality. Optically, both are ‘subsuns,’ and metaphorically, both are ‘sundogs.’ At least that’s what I’ll tell myself, since I’ve named this one “The Dancing Sundog”! (See the video by that name on Youtube.) And yes–the vegetation is mullein and the animals are two mule deer.
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Anonymous says:
The difference between a subsun and sundog seems to be a technicality. Optically, both are ‘subsuns,’ and metaphorically, both are ‘sundogs.’ At least that’s what I’ll tell myself, since I’ve named this one “The Dancing Sundog”! (See the video by that name on Youtube.) And yes–the vegetation is mullein and the animals are two mule deer.
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Laurence says:
Ian
Thanks very much indeed for the link you kindly provided in relation to the photo portrayed which gives, for the likes of me, detailed information about this cloud type of unusual phenenomenon – something I’ve not known about it till now – one of the many things I learnt about from the CAS and its members, thanks be!Thanks to you, Ron, for this photo from which I’ve learnt something new. Good man!
Laurence
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Andrew Kirk says:
Great shot and cool link. But wait! Is that a field of Mullein and two reindeer?
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Anonymous says:
Great shot and cool link. But wait! Is that a field of Mullein, and two reindeer?
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3 thoughts on “Mark McCaughrean”
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Mark McCaughrean says:
Just as an aide memoire to myself, I saw the subparhelion again on Sunday February 12, en-route between Amsterdam and Bologna. It was associated with a fallstreak hole in an otherwise rather continuous cloud deck below the airplane. The hole must have been filled with ice crystals, because as there was a subparhelion in it first, then an extremely bright subsun, and then a subparhelion on the other side of the sun, all as we flew past it.
Unfortunately, no camera with me on this occasion, so … :-(
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Mark McCaughrean says:
Ah, I knew I could depend on you, Beate :-) I was hoping for at least some comments on this one. As Ian pointed out when I sent it in, the subparhelion is a rare beast indeed and this particular flight was absolutely loaded with halo goodness.
But what’s wrong with flying? ‘Tis a wondrous thing.
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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”
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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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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.
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