Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Phantastic Optical phenomena by the sun

Fast changing weather conditions also trigger optical phenomena as the sun interacts with ice chrystals in the atmosphere (high clouds).
In this section I show my most recent picures from most common halo's, sundogs and rainbow.
On august 3, 2015 I could make the the picture below. After modification using CS4 the picture shows different phenomena. From top to bottom :
 
Circumzenital Arc
"attached" Supralateral Arc
Pary Arc and Tangent Arc
22° Halo Arc
On the right/low end a sundog
Modiefied Using CS4 B/W


What do you see ...  in theory












The above is not my picture but it shows what is seen!



Orignal picture without modification


 




The picture below shows on top a part of 22° Halo taken on August 2, 2015


Above the bright rainbow it's hard to see but there is a faint second rainbow, July 27, 2015



Beautiful sunset with left and right hand sundogs. On the right most probably a piece of the parhelic circle. Picture taken August 2, 2015