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- Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Unusual Light Pillars Over Latvia (2009 Jan 12)
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Re: Unusual Light Pillars Over Latvia (2009 January 12)
It seems to me that the light not only flares at the top but is more diffuse at the bottom, slightly focused in the middle and then flares. Are the ice particles dispersed in such a way, perhaps by changes in temperature or pressure, so that they create a lens of some kind? Just an idea from on old ...