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Title: Sunset odd effect
Post by: Angry Turnip on April 18, 2015, 05:57:08 PM

I took a few shots of the sun setting the other night at BFS,mainly beccause I noticed this rather odd "pillar" of light effect.
Is this something unusual? I don`t recall seeing anything like this before-perhaps some of the more astro clued in folk could shed some light if you pardon the awful pun. :)




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Title: Re: Sunset odd effect
Post by: smudge on April 18, 2015, 06:16:03 PM

That is pretty!

I wonder if there were a bunch of ice crystals acting as little lenses. 

I went to a great lecture some years ago by a rather eccentric chap from England who shunned his nocturnal astronomy coleagues and instead studied features of daylight.  I wish I could remember his name...