2016SEP29_1435Z West Moors Mock Sun

[Martin Rowley [West Moors/East Dorset]]

... increasingly dense Ci aloft (with shallow Cu below): stunning mock sun and 'extension' a little while ago: looking SSW around 1435Z (3.35 pm). Taken with one of these new-fangled smart-phones :-)

Martin.

[xmetman]

Nice image. Looks like a colourful comet...

[Stephen Davenport]

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Very nice, thanks. The "extension" is part of the parhelic circle. 

Stephen

Indianapolis IN

[Martin Rowley [West Moors/East Dorset]]

... The whole event lasted about a minute: I dashed indoors and grabbed the phone (which I'm not really used to using for this purpose), pointed and hoped I hit the right button! Was quite 'chuffed' that it turned out so well. You can understand why our forebears would interpret such phenomena with awe: the striking fragment of the P/C looked (as the photo shows), like a tail, with the head (the parhelion) very strongly coloured - the image probably doesn't do the intensity justice. Yet, as the cirriform cloud slid across that patch of the sky, it rapidly disappeared - I shouted to my wife ... " quick look at this ", and it had gone!

Martin.

[Paul Garvey]

A super photo. TY.