Sun Halo

[venus (Lydia)]

Hi, found an interesting image of a sun halo while searching for info on comet McNaught on wiki. Thought I'd share
Sun Halo

[badchap]

Nice - that looks like a 'glory'.

[venus (Lydia)]

Thanks,yes you're right there badchap. I'm still learning..

[RB (Andrew)]

Nice find Lydia.
Thanks for sharing.

[venus (Lydia)]

Thanks Andrew, glad you like the pic

[DJDD]

Originally Posted by venus

Hi, found an interesting image of a sun halo while searching for info on comet McNaught on wiki. Thought I'd share
Sun Halo

cool photo.

(it's amazing what they can do with photoshop these days. )

[venus (Lydia)]

yeah that 'sun halo' looks great hey
I found an image I'd taken at the begining of this year of a 'sun dog' and while browsing the images on wiki found this interesting one with the photoshop added ...lol
Check the wiki site, an interesting way to learn about these type of phenomena.

[badchap]

Originally Posted by venus

Thanks,yes you're right there badchap. I'm still learning..

*nods*
me too

I have 'heard' a couple of airline pilots discussing glories on other science related forums a while back, which had prompted me to find further, on that wonderful atmospheric optics website. I had the impression that it something that is not uncommon for pilots to see.
There is further information about the glory,-

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/glorair.htm

you're probably already familiar with it, but as I'm still new here, I'll just share it as a personal favourite of mine anyway..