Ileana Calotescu
Hello, everyone! Today I’m going to show you a photo I’ve taken some time ago. I was traveling by plane and as usually I had a seat at the window. I was looking out the window and I saw the airplane’s shadow on a cloud. It looked like it was surrounded by a rainbow. It was the first time I saw that. This optical phenomenon resembles an iconic saint’s halo. It occurs only when certain conditions are met simultaneously: it is a more complex optical phenomenon created by the refraction and dispersion of light when the sun, behind a human observer, projects the shadow on a cloud lower than its position, and the respective cloud is formed by drops of water of a diameter in a well-defined range.
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Question of
My question for you is: What is the name of this phenomenon?
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Sundog
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Glory
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Question of
Have you ever seen this phenomen?
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Yes
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No
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I answered sundog, and I will find out in about 5 seconds whether I am correct 🙂
Waooo thank you friend for sharing
Thank you for sharing this blog of the sky phenomenon.
Interesting questions from impressive images. It seems I have seen it but it has been very long, and never questioned the term of that phenomenon.
I just answered but I don’t really know what’s the answer haha
Thank you for taking part at this challenge! I’ll post the answer very soon!
I have so many pictures like this of mountains, clouds and other interesting things from high in the sky! Great picture!
You should post them! Photographs taken from the plane are always interesting!
I have in the past here on Virily posted some of them.
This is not part of a halo. As I said is a phenomenon that occurs when the sun is behind the object or the person whose shadow is projected on the cloud. It’s true that the shadow of the plane is hard to distinguish in the photo, but I assure you it was there. This rainbow surrounded the shadow. And something else! It was just one not four!?
Hope you guessed the corect answer!
I once captured a 33 degree halo with three of these! In a plane you can see all four! There were probably 3 more.
On thursday I saw one at work on my lunch break, I ran inside and told the boss and receptionist to go outside to look at it, and by the time they went out it was gone. They had to look up what one was as they didn’t really believe me. lol
This is not part of a halo. As I said is a phenomenon that occurs when the sun is behind the object or the person whose shadow is projected on the cloud. It’s true that the shadow of the plane is hard to distinguish in the photo, but I assure you it was there. This rainbow surrounded the shadow. And something else! It was just one not four!?
Hope you guessed the corect answer!
And I thought sundogs only came out around 33 degree halos. So you can just have one sundog? I need to read more on this it sounds. We have them all the time here because of the mountains, desert and coast so close to each other.
Hmm! A sun dog (or sundog) is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Two sun dogs often flank the Sun within a 22° halo. Can you see the sun in this photo? ??!
Caused by ice and the sun or moon. Even though you might not even be able to see the sun or the ring of a halo, you do have to have either the sun or the moon to create a sundog. A sundog is part of the halo. Here is a really good link I found. https://www.metabunk.org/how-rare-or-common-are-haloes-sun-dogs-etc-a-review-of-the-literature.t6742/
I know a sundog is part of the halo, Kim! I can not give you the answer here, but you can find it in my post Sky Sunday – What is the name of this phenomenon? -The answer. ?