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Old 30-06-2012, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisM View Post
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.

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Actually you are quite correct here is what it actually is - i should have looked it up in the first place its a Circumzenithal arc

have posted the image of the sundog
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