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Dear Sharon,
what you have seen was a glorie (small colorful rings) and a fogbow (big
white circle). Both are created by small wather droplets.
http://www.blitzwetter.de/2002/nebel.jpg (in this case Heiligenschein and
Fogbow)
Best,
Mark
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Von: Dr S Curtis (Staff) <s.curtis_at_CS.STIR.AC.UK>
An: METEOPTIC_at_listserv.funet.fi <METEOPTIC_at_listserv.funet.fi>
Datum: Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2002 17:55
Betreff: Sub phenomena from aeroplane
>I saw some interesting phenomena from an aeroplane recently.
>One nice sub sun, and some glories.
>
>One glory interested me in particular. It was very very strong,
>to the extent that it wasn't just one ring of colours visible
>but 3 concentric cycles through the colours.
>
>Centred on the glory was a halo, large and faint but definitely there.
>I am very used to seeing 22 deg haloes, and this was bigger than
>that, wider too, but not as big as a right angle. So I estimate the
>radius of this halo to be 30-something degrees.
>
>Any ideas as to what that is called? (I didn't have a camera on me,
>unfortunately!)
>
>Sharon
>
>--
>s.curtis_at_cs.stir.ac.uk
>www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~scu/
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