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I am sitting here at my desk puzzling what on earth is *that*.
It looks for all the world like a sundog, but it's in the
wrong place!!!!
It's a sundog-lookalike, against the backdrop of a streak of
cloud, just at the top of the cloud (ie not all the way down
so not part of a halo). It's a patch of light, not an arc or
halo or anything.
It's 4.20pm UT, I'm at 56N, 3.75ish deg W, sun is
(oh gosh, vertical heights...)
um, about 30-something degrees high in the western sky,
sundog lookalike is distinctly *lower* in the sky, to the south-west-ish,
definitely not on a level like a sundog is, more like 20-something
degrees above the horizon, or maybe 17,18,19.
Sorta (fixed width font)
Sun
?
----S-------------------------------W-------------
Angular distance between sun is two lots of thumb-to-pinkie
distance, so if one lot of thumb-to-pinkie is the usual 22, then
this is about 44.
Red is innermost, nearer the sun, the colours change nicely
through the rainbow hues to blue, so blue on the left, red on the right.
Nice rainbow colours, better saturation than a sundog usually,
reminds me of a picture of a circumhorizontal arc I once saw, that
had nice strong colours.
Anyway, it's gone now. But does anyone have any ideas what it was?
Sharon
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www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~scu/
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