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| From | amdx <nojunk@knology.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.electronics.design |
| Subject | Re: nice planet |
| Date | 2017-05-30 13:08 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ogkc80$k49$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <mfnpict6dsf3urpu485i7nhkfhi1d542pp@4ax.com> <ogjok9$clp$1@dont-email.me> <ogk0cp$l2u$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
On 5/30/2017 9:42 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
> On 30/05/2017 13:33, amdx wrote:
>> On 5/29/2017 9:51 PM, John Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53724080/Truckee/PCD_2017/Squaw_Double_2017.JPG
>>>
>
>>
>> Not the normal double rainbow, the colors aren't reversed.
>
> They are ice crystal haloes from fairly uniform wind aligned prismatic
> crystals in the upper atmosphere. High altitude version of diamond dust.
>
>> Also the red is there but yellow and blue are not distinct on the upper
>> one. And, I have never seen a rainbow with the peak pointing earthward!
>> Are you sure this isn't a lens artifact?
>>
>> Mikek
>
> They are real. The top one is either a circum zenithal arc or a 22degree
> halo round the sun with some dispersion. The lower one is one of the
> stronger highly coloured arcs from hexagonal prisms I think.
>
> They are up market somewhat rarer versions of parhelia or Sun dogs.
>
Well, nice to have someone with more knowledge, I went 800 deep in a
google image search on rainbows, nothing at all like Larkin's picture.
circum zenithal arc
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbXoEKPYees
22 degree halo
> http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2007/04/portao-brazil-halo.html
parhelia or Sun dogs
> https://www.google.com/search?q=parhelia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiT0d36mZjUAhUD3SYKHQfOBOEQ_AUICigB&biw=1440&bih=687#imgrc=_
Thanks, Mikek
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