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06/03/2007 07:34:06 PM · #1 |
Was eating a picnic lunch on Sunday when I noticed this in the sky. I've never seen one so impressive. I tried to do very little processing on the shot. I think it's a sunbow, but I'm not sure for two reasons. One, it seems too linear to be a sunbow. Two, it seemed further away from the sun than I'm used to seeing.
Opinions on what this was? |
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06/03/2007 07:42:32 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo: Opinions on what this was? |
Painfully oversharpened? :D
I'm guessing UFO or some type of Soviet signaling device. :)
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06/03/2007 07:43:33 PM · #3 |
I've never heard of a sunbow before, but that is really interesting. |
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06/03/2007 07:43:44 PM · #4 |
I heard you were in the area so in my excitement I flew across the sky and left a beautiful rainbow just for you.....!!
B**shit....b**shit....gotcha Snottynose!! |
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06/03/2007 07:43:54 PM · #5 |
That's a sun dog (I believe), and a very good one at that.
Message edited by author 2007-06-03 19:44:52. |
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06/03/2007 07:47:36 PM · #6 |
Sure looks like a sundog to me. These usually are seen with the sky is low on the horizon and the light is reflecting off cirrus clouds. Very cool image of one.
Originally posted by scalvert: That's a sun dog (I believe), and a very good one at that. |
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06/03/2007 07:47:46 PM · #7 |
I second scalvert's diagnosis of a sundog. I found this one in a Google image search. Preeeetttyy...
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06/03/2007 07:49:31 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by scalvert: That's a sun dog (I believe), and a very good one at that. |
Wiki confirmed what I thought that sundogs are something different.
I feel like I know about another "rainbow" type phenomenon, but I can't recall the name so I can't look it up. It has something to do with ice crystals being of a certain orientation in the upper atmosphere.
Wiki also says this..."Sundogs typically, but not exclusively, appear when the sun is low". This was about 2:00 PM.
Message edited by author 2007-06-03 19:50:45. |
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06/03/2007 07:55:07 PM · #9 |
Here's another picture which labels what looks like the phenonmenon as "UTA". Now I have to try to find out what that means... |
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06/03/2007 07:55:36 PM · #10 |
There were also 'iridescent clouds' that came up in my brief Google attempts, but they don't look anything like what you got. I do know that rainbows like these are fairly commonly seen by hikers in the mountains (when the clouds are lower to the eye).
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06/03/2007 07:56:48 PM · #11 |
The others above are correct. I rechecked my reference and both sundogs, circumzenithal arcs and other 'rainbow' like refractive events are very similar but the circumzenithal arc runs parallel to the horizon...
Doc - What a great example picture - thanks for sharing . I went to my copy of Minnaert's "Light and Color in the Outdoors" to 'prove' it for myself.
Originally posted by DrAchoo: Here's another picture which labels what looks like the phenonmenon as "UTA". Now I have to try to find out what that means... |
Message edited by author 2007-06-03 20:08:10. |
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06/03/2007 07:57:16 PM · #12 |
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06/03/2007 07:59:38 PM · #13 |
It's a circumhorizontal arc doc...
R.
Yuk, wildcard beat me to it
Message edited by author 2007-06-03 19:59:57.
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06/03/2007 08:01:16 PM · #14 |
Wildcard, you win the prize. I just happened to be sent this link a little while ago:
//news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060619-rainbow-fire.html
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06/03/2007 08:08:18 PM · #15 |
Woo hoo! This is cool. It was great to be in the right place at the right time to capture something rare. Too bad the rest of the picture is so mundane. ;) |
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06/03/2007 08:10:44 PM · #16 |
Here are some Similiar shots I found while following one of the earlier links in this thread...
Cool Capture you got there. |
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06/03/2007 08:23:16 PM · #17 |
wow nice shot, all the sundogs I've ever seen were much smaller and my efforts to capture them failed. Did you notice if there was two of them. Just about everytime I have seen one there is another on the opposite side of the sun, (for some reason one always seems dimmer, most likely just has to do with the cloud formations at the time). |
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06/03/2007 08:29:42 PM · #18 |
Here's another version. I processed this one just to try to bring it out more. I didn't use saturation, but rather levels and contrast. It seems to pixelate rather quickly.
Au natural:
Processed:
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06/03/2007 08:34:27 PM · #19 |
trying to find a cure to those Icelandic aurora borealis? :D lol |
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06/03/2007 09:07:20 PM · #20 |
You might want to submit it to the National Weather Service, Portland Office Photo Gallery -- they like to get public submissions of interesting atmospheric phenomena. |
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06/03/2007 09:10:15 PM · #21 |
"Since these images are public domain, no permission is needed if you want to use them. However, please give credit to the National Weather Service if you use them."
Seems sorta odd...
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06/03/2007 09:14:07 PM · #22 |
So nobody believes its a UFO -- great, now I look silly. :P
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06/03/2007 09:21:38 PM · #23 |
Kind of looks like that place where the all of The Care Bears Live.
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06/03/2007 09:26:30 PM · #24 |
There seems to be a lot of these in Oregon. Either that or I'd just never noticed them when I lived in Washington and Indiana. The other day on the way to the grocery store I saw a huge rainbow ring around the sun close to sunset. In the last couple months I've seen a couple of the smaller little cloud iridescences. |
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06/03/2007 09:27:24 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by aliqui: There seems to be a lot of these in Oregon. Either that or I'd just never noticed them when I lived in Washington and Indiana. |
I'm in Washington. ;) |
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