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  1. Lyman Jordan III avatar Lyman Jordan III says:

    Wow.

  2. beautiful says:

    Beautiful

  3. Mark McCaughrean says:

    Thanks, Margret; sounds like I was quite lucky on that day then. Interestingly, I expect that most people up there at the same time didn’t notice it: it’s not the obvious thing to do, looking at the Sun :-)

    Indeed, if I recall correctly, I first noticed the corona (which was coming and going quite rapidly) when taking a picture down towards the glacier. The Sun was in the shot, but rather attenuated by the camera optics, making it easy to notice the corona. But once I knew it was there, it was very easy to observe naked-eye as well, blocking the Sun with my hand.

  4. Margret says:

    Amazing photo. I’ve been up there a few times and have never seen anything like this. Very dense fog, yes; clear, crystalline air, yes; Alpine choughs riding the thermals, yes – so, worth a trip regardless of the weather!

  5. Amazing photo. I've been up there a few times and have never seen anything like this. Very dense fog, yes; clear, crystalline air, yes; Alpine choughs riding the thermals, yes – so, worth a trip regardless of the weather! says:

    I’ve been up there a few times and have never seen anything like this. Very dense fog, yes; clear, crystalline air, yes; Alpine choughs riding the thermals, yes – so, worth a trip regardless of the weather!

  6. Laurence Green avatar Laurence Green says:

    Many thanks, Mark, for the additional information you provided about the taking of your unique photo – I found it most interesting. One day perhaps I may see such an event when I plan to visit the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland next year.

    Kind regards.

    Laurence

  7. Mark McCaughrean says:

    Thanks, Laurence. It was indeed a wonderful sight, but in some sense, the photo slightly overplays it. Not because it has been heavily processed or anything, but simply because in real life, it was a very fleeting spectacle, coming and going rapidly as the wind blew the ragged clouds over the summit. Conversely, the picture allows you to stare at it and soak up the beauty :-)

    Given the particular topography of the Jungfraujoch, I’d hazard a guess that such conditions are quite common there and it seems possible that multi-ringed coronae might be seen quite often. So make the trip: it’s well worthwhile in any case :-)

  8. Laurence Green avatar Laurence Green says:

    Brilliant, Mark. What a unique spectacle to see! Lucky, so lucky, you.

    Laurence

  9. Vera Uzhva avatar flami says:

    It’s incredible ~

  10. Mark says:

    Thanks, John: clouds were blowing up sporadically over the Jungfraujoch from the Aletsch glacier, and at points where they were thin, there was a nice corona to be seen, albeit rapidly changing as the clouds blew through.

    That said, I didn’t quite realise how rare and special a 4-ringed corona is until I did a little checking on Les Cowley’s Atmospheric Optics later on.

  11. John Norris says:

    Superb Capture Mark !

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A "ring" of cumulus seen on a morning over the Kalva Railway Station, Thane, India

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Cumulus with a high level of haze due to Canadian wildfires and subsequent smoke moving into the area over Madison, Wisconsin, US

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Vicars' Close is reportedly Europe's oldest residential street, which as Helen conveyed, is famous for its chimneys. She likes to imagine the clouds as smoke coming from them, as seen here over Wells, Somerset, England.

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A distrail, short for "dissipation trail", occurs when an aircraft passes through a cloud and it turns the water droplets in the cloud into gas or ice. This distrail is seen slicing its way through a layer of cirrostratus over Kianga, New South Wales, Australia.

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Cirrostratus undulatus spotted over the valley near the Fraser River, Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada

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