let the parhelia begin
was near the coast on friday, saw my first sundog of the late summer/early autumn season for us here at any rate.
seen plenty before - but never had a camera on me at the same time - cracked me first! yehaa - not a very speccy one (just a single which is the majority i see), or even a decent or speccy matching simultaneous pair - but it ill do for now hehe
it soon turned into a boring old 22º halo later on, as the ice crystals in the cirrus changed from the uniform angles to random?- but visually i could see a sundog on the opposite side now in the halo, but in the photos it doesnt show up properly, bummer
i see maybe 3 or 4 displays during the season if i am lucky - so not super common here imo - not as common as 22º halos are here, see 20-30 of them a year easy i guess, maybe more?.
check out what they get in the polar regions
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/bishop.htm
i also quickly snapped a double red sunset rainbow this evening - although to the eye it wasnt that red? flash went of accidently - lighting up raindrops
