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Solar Halo
Solar Halo
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Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Nikon
Location: Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
Galleries: Sky, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jan 14, 2009

Viewed: 13663
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

 Taken somewhere in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, in June 2008.

This is created when sunlight is refracted through 6-sided ice crystals in thin, high altitude clouds.

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 08/29/2013 11:54:04 AM
Aww, check it out! Just what we were chatting about.
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 06/30/2011 11:22:43 AM
You not only captured a halo, but also a sun dog (or sun column)!!! Very awesome.
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 06/30/2011 09:52:12 AM
That's fascinating! It's good that you had the 10-20 with you when this occurred, and that you knew what settings to use to capture it so nicely.
I just noticed that I had already commented on this. It's interesting that my reaction was the same as before.
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 06/30/2011 09:48:53 AM
That is an amazing shot - 12064 views and only 4 comments !! ??

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 05/24/2009 07:37:13 PM
That is amazing, what a brilliant shot! I didn't even know about solar haloes, but it does explain something I saw once - it would have been a tiny fragment of one.
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 05/01/2009 10:34:15 PM
Wow, I just stumbled onto this shot after seeing your "Busses" photo... but I just saw my first solar halo today, complete with rainbow spectrum... of course I didn't have my camera! Great shot and an amazing phenomenon.
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 01/21/2009 12:35:13 AM
This is just too cool. I have always wanted to see one of these. We get parts of them in this area, but I have never seen a full circle like this. You were fortunate to have the 10-20 mm with you so that you could get the whole scene the way you did.
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