#sundogs — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sundogs, aggregated by home.social.
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It's a fine morning's sunrise for an August day in May, here near the Bay.
#Chesapeake #Morning #Sunrise #Warm #Parhelion #AtmosphereicOptics #Sundogs #Dogs #GundogMorning -
-10F isn't too bad, if there's no wind.
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Well, we've opened a portal to SOMETHING for 2026...
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Bird Sun Dog
Have you ever seen a little rainbow off to the side of the Sun? Rare but rewarding to see, such spectacles are known as sundogs, mock suns or parhelia. Sundogs are just sunlight refracting through hexagonal falling ice crystals in the Earth's atmosphere. When thin ice crystals flitter down nearly horizontally, they best refract sunlight sideways and create sundogs.
#photography
#SunDogs
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For this week's Time Lapse Tuesday we have an example of sun dogs. In this time lapse from last Friday afternoon, you'll notice a bright, colorful spot to the left of the sun. This is caused by ice crystals in high clouds that refract the light into the colors of the spectrum. You can also see a halo around the sun at times, also caused by refraction.
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#SkyingHour A4 I often glimpse upwards to do a little bit of #Skying – am always looking for #SunDogs when the weather is right. Always look up to see what #Stars & #Planets are about – & at the #Moon I am spending more time consciously #Skying nowadays though. Setting aside time & brain space.
From: @drlucyrogers
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Nice #sundogs and 22-degree halo this afternoon. (With St. Peter's Dome in the background.)
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Sun dogs from Bellingham, WA.
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Noodles and sundogs and pyramids, oh my! Thank you to Q2 viewers Stacey, Sherri, Suzanne, and Bob for your great photos of our cold, beautiful weather!
#Montana #Billings #Q2 #KTVQ #MTN #Wyoming #cold #freeze #snow #icy #noodles #frozennoodles #sun #sundogs #halo #snowdrift #wind #pyramid #photo #photos #photography #weather #wx #mtwx #wywx
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Sun dogs over #Austin!
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Rainbow's End
I've always been fascinated by optical effects, especially those involving colour splitting. Over the years I've made a collection of images of them, and I'm sharing some of them with you today.
Taken from home in #Scotland, these are #parhelia or #SunDogs formed when ice crystals in high cirrostratus cloud refract the light and it splits into coloured bands.
These two look quite a lot like feathers, I think.#weather #rainbow @photography
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Some more #AtmosphericOptics from #Oxfordshire on 17th July 2023. We had a nice #22DegreeHalo and really bright #parhelia (#sundogs) which had a bit of a #ParhelicCircle tail. I always love getting aircraft flying near sundogs! #OpticalEffects #IceCrystals #Haloes
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Solar #halo and #sundogs in #sanfrancisco today
