APOD: Sun Halo over Sweden (2021 Dec 28)

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APOD: Sun Halo over Sweden (2021 Dec 28)

Post by APOD Robot » Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:05 am

Image Sun Halo over Sweden

Explanation: What's happened to the Sun? Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a giant lens. In the featured video, however, there are actually millions of tiny lenses: ice crystals. Water may freeze in the atmosphere into small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent with their faces flat and parallel to the ground. An observer may find themselves in the same plane as many of the falling ice crystals near sunrise or sunset. During this alignment, each crystal can act like a miniature lens, refracting sunlight into our view and creating phenomena like parhelia, the technical term for sundogs. The featured video was taken in late 2017 on the side of a ski hill at the Vemdalen Ski Resort in central Sweden. Visible in the center is the most direct image of the Sun, while two bright sundogs glow prominently from both the left and the right. Also visible is the bright 22 degree halo -- as well as the rarer and much fainter 46 degree halo -- also created by sunlight refracting through atmospheric ice crystals.

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Re: APOD: Sun Halo over Sweden (2021 Dec 28)

Post by orin stepanek » Tue Dec 28, 2021 4:43 pm

Twas hoping to find a photo of today's video; but no luck! :?
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Pretty kitty ts a good observer though!
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Post by neufer » Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:31 pm

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Post by alter-ego » Tue Dec 28, 2021 8:30 pm

The cat reminds me of Clark Griswold daydreaming about his future pool, among other things... :D
 
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Re: APOD: Sun Halo over Sweden (2021 Dec 28)

Post by Fred the Cat » Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:45 pm

Good thing these skiers don’t live in a world where water freezes into
lens-shaped
crystals.

These folks would be toast. :oops:
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Post by johnnydeep » Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:54 pm

So, if the two bright spots on either side are sun dogs, what is the bright fountain-looking thing on top?
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Re: APOD: Sun Halo over Sweden (2021 Dec 28)

Post by alter-ego » Tue Dec 28, 2021 10:27 pm

johnnydeep wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:54 pm So, if the two bright spots on either side are sun dogs, what is the bright fountain-looking thing on top?
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Re: APOD: Sun Halo over Sweden (2021 Dec 28)

Post by rj rl » Wed Dec 29, 2021 3:37 pm

johnnydeep wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:54 pm So, if the two bright spots on either side are sun dogs, what is the bright fountain-looking thing on top?
check out this Cloud Of The Month if you wanna know the names of some of the more rare optical effects:
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/december-2021/

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Re: APOD: Sun Halo over Sweden (2021 Dec 28)

Post by johnnydeep » Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:16 pm

alter-ego wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 10:27 pm
johnnydeep wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:54 pm So, if the two bright spots on either side are sun dogs, what is the bright fountain-looking thing on top?
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rj rl wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 3:37 pm
johnnydeep wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:54 pm So, if the two bright spots on either side are sun dogs, what is the bright fountain-looking thing on top?
check out this Cloud Of The Month if you wanna know the names of some of the more rare optical effects:
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/december-2021/
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