Ring around the sun(Pics)

[Aisha_Clan-Clan]

Colorful, round a little dark inside ring. why is it there, and haven't seen before?

Edit: Friend saw too, She took two pics

Edit 2: Got them and uploaded. I think second one turned out better.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Aisha_Clan_Clan_Prower/Sun%20Ring/SunRing1.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/Aisha_Clan_Clan_Prower/Sun%20Ring/SunRing2.jpg





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[Wyndham]

that's cool to look at.

[Aisha_Clan-Clan]

Ring is still there too. Managed to get a pic with my Cell cam, but I can't upload it, and these pics are much better.

[Dre_o]

I assume that is the light refracting off of the water particles in the atmosphere and going to your camera/eyes in those different patterns of light.

Think of a mini-rainbow.

[Wyndham]

I think Dre is right.

[DikkyRay]

i think its there because of the suns reflection off of the camera lens. Its like that for any light source, but its cool cuz its the sun

[Aisha_Clan-Clan]

I seen the same with the Moon rarely.

[ABDUR101]

...you guys have honestly never heard of 'lens flare' ?

[Wyndham]

On 2006-06-24 15:00, ABDUR101 wrote:
...you guys have honestly never heard of 'lens flare' ?


some of us prefer illusion to such things.
http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[Aisha_Clan-Clan]

I saw that without cam too

[AzureBlaze]

Yea, that is a legit natural phenomenon.
We've had them here too, they're pretty rare though. Don't be surprised if your local news does a story. (people go wacky when the see it, and say its aliens or elvis or something doing it) They're called some big weather-name like coronasomething. I think if I remember right they are ice-crystals turned a sertain way in the atmosphere, and they do a single or double ring. The one we had here was 1 and like half of another. They can last for hours.

They are not a camera-trick or a lense flare. Sometimes even the moon will do a softer one, but then it's called something different. Maybe wikipedia has something?

[Skorpius]

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/24oct_sunrings.htm
http://pages.prodigy.net/pam.orman/joeatmospheric/Atmospheric_02.html

Google <3 That should answer some questions.

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

"That's the complete parhelic circle!" I exclaimed aloud to the empty street.

Awesome quote from the first link there you gave there Skorp.
With some nice images of what's going on also.

[EJ]

But what Abdur say lens flare.



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