Thursday, 14 October 2010

Sundog spotting

Spotted from the train: a 'sundog'

According to my cloud collector's handbook, one of these collects 35 points!

'Sundogs can appear when a cloud's ice crystals are shaped like hexagonal plates and aligned almost horizontally. When the sun is very low in the sky, the crystals refract most light by 22 degrees, so observers see their collective sparkles as bright spots on either side of the sun.'

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