May 07, 2010

A Halo Around the Sun

This awesome sight in the skies over Marigondon LLC was taken just this morning. This isn't a rainbow at all but a rare optical illusion called a sundog. This appears when the sun is low in the sky and its rays catch the thin vapor formed of ice crystals which lies in the atmosphere six miles above the Earth's surface. The rays are refracted by the crystals to produce what looks like a halo around the sun.

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