sun dog day afternoon - 30062012 a Circumzenithal arc

[h0ughy]

taken this afternoon while Al was visiting - he pointed it out;)

[lacad01]

How cool is that! :thumbsup:

[ChrisM]

Nicely captured, but I have never seen sun dogs that shape before. The sun dogs that I've seen look to be 180 degrees apart and are the bright spots that lie at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock on a circle surrounding the Sun. What you observed seems to be curved outwards wrt the Sun.

Chris

[h0ughy]

Actually you are quite correct here is what it actually is (http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/cza.htm) - i should have looked it up in the first place its a Circumzenithal arc

have posted the image of the sundog

[h0ughy]

thanks Adam - i have never seen one of these until today

[hotspur]

Quite spectacular,great capture! well done getting that.

[alan meehan]

Great pictures Dave the camera has picked these up really well ,it was hard to see clearly with the sun so close ,but there were so many just appearing right before us in such a different cloud formation as well
AL

[bartman]

Awesome shot David!
Must have been quite speccy seeing it "live"
Bartman

[h0ughy]

thanks Chris

yeah they turned out well Al

[h0ughy]

they were - but they didnt last long

[Derek Klepp]

Top pic

[h0ughy]

thanks Derek

[tornado33]

Great pics, I never saw any at my place
Scott

[h0ughy]

that big tree in the yard behind you would have blocked the view

[Deeno]

Wow, Nicely caught!
Would like to see one........

[h0ughy]

:rofl: but you just did ;)

Thanks :thumbsup:

[stardust steve]

yeah very nicely caught. I have never seen this phenomenon before.
:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

more images

[Analog6]

I saw an email recently where they call this a 'fire rainbow'. Never heard it called that before but I know it is rare. Nice shots and congratulations on catching it!

[Omaroo]

Spectacular David. I've never seen striations like that before. :thumbsup:

[astronobob]

Thats an awesome sight and capture David, rare as hens teeth ?

[h0ughy]

thanks it was a lucky shot;)

neither had i Chris, they were growing by the minute then disappeared

thanks Bob

[firstlight]

Brilliant capture David. Sun-dog looks good, very colourful, as does the halo, but that Circum-zenithal arc is something special. Anne-Louise and I saw one several years ago, and any time we see some high altitude clouds like that we hope to see a sun-dog and always look up to see if there is a CZ arc.

Thanks for sharing.

[h0ughy]

i am glad it made your day Tony

[bloodhound31]

I haven't seen one that pronounced before. Nice catch mate!

Baz.

[h0ughy]

thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeffkop]

You lucky so and so ... count yourself amongst a select few who experienced that first hand ESPECIALLY given the weather of late (2 years Bwah ha ha ha) .. Great photos too .. Ive never seen one of those .. A privaledge to view these.