I was catching up on some honey do's yesterday,and felt the sun was extra bright. When I looked up this is what I saw.
(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg299/TrackeySauresRex/IMG_0709_zpsaf3b6bf5.jpg) (http://s251.photobucket.com/user/TrackeySauresRex/media/IMG_0709_zpsaf3b6bf5.jpg.html)
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Wow! That's a great pic. I've seen halos before but none that clear. Is that a hawk in the top right?
Cool pic
very cool
Quote from: Gold Spur on May 15, 2013, 10:11:08 AM
Wow! That's a great pic. I've seen halos before but none that clear. Is that a hawk in the top right?
I don't konw what it was,I was lucky to get that shot. I had layed down on my lawn under that tree and had the camara was on rapid fire. I didn't even know the bird was in the shot; because,I was shooting straight at the sun.
My neighbor thought I went down mowing the lawn :TooFunny:
Awesome pic. :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
Wow. Great pic......
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Very cool. Reminds me of some Hole Punch Clouds I was able to snap a few pictures of a few years ago. I will see if I can find them.
Here is the one I took.
I was coming out of the woods turkey hunting in Washington County, AL. At the time I had never even heard of the phenomena.
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f248/BamaProud/DSCF3070.jpg)
The National Weather Service in Mobile took this picture about 60 miles South of Where I was:
(http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/mob/HolePunch/flag_pole1.JPG)
They did a short paper/information Statement about it:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mob/?n=hole_punch
Quote from: TrackeySauresRex on May 15, 2013, 10:34:00 AM
My neighbor thought I went down mowing the lawn :TooFunny:
:TooFunny: :TooFunny:
I've seen that before too, but usually at night around the moon. I heard it is from ice crystals in the atmosphere. Does that sound right Bama Proud? Neat hole punch cloud pics too!! I saw them once down here in FLA, and took some pics of them.
Yea, size and shape distribution of ice crystals around the sun/moon. More specifically light refraction through those crystals. That one looks like its a 46 degree Halo...much rarer and distinct that the more common 22 degree Halo.
More than you ever wanted to know about optical phenomena:
http://www.weather.gov/media/aly/stormbuster/Spring-05.pdf
God Made a beautiful place for us to live in didn't he. :mycross:
Quote from: BamaProud on May 15, 2013, 09:55:42 PM
God Made a beautiful place for us to live in didn't he. :mycross:
Amen! My OG brother, and great photos
Funny that you post this. My wife was driving my 3yr old home from school (he goes 2 days a week). He always calls me on speaker in the truck to tell me how his day at school was. So as he was telling me about his day he says dad I see a rainbow so since I am on speaker I ask my wife is it raining she says no I don't know what he is talking about. So we finnnish talking and I get back to work.When I got home from work she shows me a pic that looks just like yours that her friend had snapped that day. Turned out that that was the "rainbow" that my son was looking at.