Saw this today driving back from the Mojave Road (detail writeup later)
Giant, perfectly symetrical ring around the sun, what is it???
The ring was MUCH more apparent in person and not through the camera!
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Sun Photo From Mojave Desert, What is this???
Saw this today driving back from the Mojave Road (detail writeup later)
Giant, perfectly symetrical ring around the sun, what is it???
The ring was MUCH more apparent in person and not through the camera!
Last edited by Boston Mangler; 11-25-2007 at 11:27 PM.
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Cool!
That's a solar halo.
It's a ring caused by light refracting through high altitude hexagonal ice crystals (in those cirrus clouds in your photo). The most common solar halo occurs 22˚ from the sun...which looks about right based on your photos....but can also occur at an angle of 46˚.
Either way, cool deal!
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Ed, how rare are these?Originally Posted by DaktariEd
Cool!
That's a solar halo.
It's a ring caused by light refracting through high altitude hexagonal ice crystals (in those cirrus clouds in your photo). The most common solar halo occurs 22˚ from the sun...which looks about right based on your photos....but can also occur at an angle of 46˚.
Either way, cool deal!
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Thanks Ed!
Very amazing sight i must say!
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"Solar halo" my
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Unusual, but probably not considered rare.
I've seen them a few times....over quite a few years.
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To add a twist to this ring around the sun, my wife and I were traveling thru La Paz, Baja 2 years ago and saw the same ring around the moon one night. Tried to photograph it, but didn't have my digital camera with me and the old tried and true F16@1/125 exposure for the moon didn't work out..... It was amazing to see and have never figured out what it was.
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One night last summer I sailed under a moon halo (lunar halo?) for a couple hours, very cool.
Although I must say that sailing at night by the Northern Lights is by far the most interesting.
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Cool! this can change!
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And here I thought it was a dirty windshield!
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