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07-20-2005, 03:32 PM | #1 |
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7/20/2005: Circumzenithal Arc
Today's Earth Science Pic of the Day is breathtaking, an absolute stunner. At first I thought it must be enhanced, but no - as the official caption from photographer Thomas Herrmann has it: Sitting in a garden in Erlensee, Germany on May 27, I realized that cirrus clouds were visible all across the sky. Knowing that these clouds can provide an opportunity to observe atmospheric phenomena, I kept an eye on the sky and was rewarded by seeing the amazing circumzenithal arc, shown above. With just a little imagination, you can see seahorses floating inside the arc. Circumzenithal arcs are perhaps the most colourful of all halo-related phenomena. In fact, many people who witness them believe they're rainbows because of their beauty and arc-like shape. However, contrary to a rainbow, which forms a circle around the antisolar point, a circumzenithal arc appears, as its name implies, at the zenith. Only the portion pointing towards the Sun is visible. I still don't quite understand it. |
07-20-2005, 03:34 PM | #2 |
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CoolCoolCool!!! I want the poster!
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07-20-2005, 04:01 PM | #3 |
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looks like a little yellow electric person jumping off the end.....
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07-20-2005, 06:02 PM | #4 |
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I don't understand the caption entirely, but I do know this is cool. And very beautiful. I guess you can only see these in Germany. I've never seen anything close to this. Very interesting. Input. Input. Input. Thanx.
This guy was really lucky to get this shot.
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07-20-2005, 07:38 PM | #5 |
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If you go to the link there is a link to the photographers website. It's not in English but I actually spent a couple hours looking at his pictures yesterday.
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07-20-2005, 10:58 PM | #6 |
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Hmmm, I guess that's not the same kind of thing I saw.
<a href="http://photos13.flickr.com/19227211_5b8abd983a_b.jpg">Here's a couple</i> <a href="http://photos15.flickr.com/19227212_0a32228f97_b.jpg">shots</a> of a rainbow-like thing I saw over Phoenix a couple months back. I'm still not sure what it was. Just a very dense cloud acting like a prism. And did you see <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8631798/">why the sky is blue? And why it <i>really</i> isn't</a>. Cool article. |
07-20-2005, 11:43 PM | #7 |
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Looks like little seahorses dancing!
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07-20-2005, 11:48 PM | #8 |
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Those are sundogs...one on each side of the sun.
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07-20-2005, 11:50 PM | #9 |
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ahh, thanks
everyday I tell ya. Every day.
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07-21-2005, 04:00 AM | #10 | |
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07-21-2005, 04:10 AM | #11 | |
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07-21-2005, 12:15 PM | #12 |
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looking at the title of the thread....
.....all I could think of was Spencer Tunic (or whatever the dude's name is that takes pictures of all the naked people) and a knife.
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07-21-2005, 06:53 PM | #13 |
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Your thinking of Rabbi Turnick.
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What did you do, drag out the antique protractor and measure the mean angle of the apparitions?
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07-21-2005, 11:55 PM | #15 |
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Bruce just knows.
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