From my limited understanding I'd explain it like this:
The clouds you could see were extremely high which would make them ice crystals, not vapour as are the lower clouds. The ice refracts the light from the sun which vapour doesn't do so readily, thus forming the circle. If you looked very closely, and I did, you would have noticed two things -
1 - the 'circle' was only evident where the clouds were - ie where there was no cloud, there was no circle; and
2 - the circle had very faint rainbow colours in it.
Both of those things indicate ice and light refraction.
Cheers.
Oh, both you guys managed to post while I was typing. :-))
Shortly
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Date Joined: 21/04/08
You mean this one ...
You mean this one ...
hlokk
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Date Joined: 04/04/08
Still out there. Its called
Still out there. Its called a Sun Halo. Bit more here.
ody
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Date Joined: 30/12/06
Hi Ya,Yep, got a call
Hi Ya,
Yep, got a call from the missus to have a look.
From my limited understanding I'd explain it like this:
The clouds you could see were extremely high which would make them ice crystals, not vapour as are the lower clouds. The ice refracts the light from the sun which vapour doesn't do so readily, thus forming the circle. If you looked very closely, and I did, you would have noticed two things -
1 - the 'circle' was only evident where the clouds were - ie where there was no cloud, there was no circle; and
2 - the circle had very faint rainbow colours in it.
Both of those things indicate ice and light refraction.
Cheers.
Oh, both you guys managed to post while I was typing. :-))
Ben Derecki
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Date Joined: 10/10/07
that's the one
had a look to see what it was all about too. doesn't happen too often from what i read.
H.S. Chan
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Date Joined: 04/01/09
i duno bout everyone else,
i duno bout everyone else, but i dont cruise round staring at the sun very often lol hehe
flangies
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Date Joined: 11/05/08
Yeah i didnt know you came
Yeah i didnt know you came out in the sun ;)
H.S. Chan
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Date Joined: 04/01/09
bastard, my display pic is
bastard, my display pic is in the sun lol...
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