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msbee
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:24 pm 
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THis morning in St. Maarten we saw this in the sky:
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The local radio announced it and many people on the island were out looking at it.
I guess it is a form of a rainbow but it sure was strange.
and it happened just as the white smoke was coming and the bells were ringing in Rome, announcing a new Pope.
It was a weird coincidence!
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wow.. Very starnge in deed.. Kind of looks like a real close up of the moon from behind a cloud or something ( I know it's not) Would of loved to see it in person
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It's called a "solar halo." Caused by refraction of sunlight though ice crystals in the stratosphere.

Not terribly unusual, but that does seem to be a very pronounced example.
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Yes that is Halo as the high cirrus clouds are of crystals.They are beautiful to watch but only for a few seconds.

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I found out that it is indeed a halo.
also called a mock or dog sun?
someone sent me this url and picture.
http://www.geocities.com/~kcdreher/mcsundog.html
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Magnificent!!!
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Well whatever it is called it sure is neat!! Thanks for sharing that msbee, truly amazing!!
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msbee wrote:
also called a mock or dog sun?


Sun dogs are found either side of the sun as shown in the image below:

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Nice pic msbee...thanks for posting. You learn something new every day!!

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yes,Mary, I learn somehtimng new evey day too.
thanks P.K. for the information about a sun dog.
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x-y-no wrote:
It's called a "solar halo." Caused by refraction of sunlight though ice crystals in the stratosphere.

Not terribly unusual, but that does seem to be a very pronounced example.


Yes, I've seen them here in Barbados before but never so striking as the one above.

Oddly enough, I think we had a halo here on the 19th too. I guess there was a lot of cirrus stratus in the eastern Caribbean on that day or something.
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That's a very pronounced halo for anywhere.
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this is an even better picture that someone else in St. Maarten took and posted on Storm Caribe.

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