In October of 2009, I witnessed my second Parhelion, or Sundog, a natural phenomena, it wasn’t anything spectacular as those you see in the more northern or southern regions, but a complete halo around the sun, really large halo.
They are apparently caused by the effect of the sunlight passing through ice-crystals in the air (we’re in the tropics, ice-crystals??). In the photo above, you can see the relative size compared with the portion of Central Garage’s building sticking out of the corner 🙂
A few nights ago, my friend Savita messaged me asking if I’d seen the moon that evening, on looking, I was amazed to see the same effect with the moon, called a Parselene.
Given my experience with lunar sky photography, I did not expect a great image out of it, so I’d say this one is just about par for the course 🙂
It may be difficult to see, depending on your monitor’s calibration 🙂 With the naked eye, I could actually see the rainbow of colours in the halo, off to the right of the image is the power-line to my house 🙂
As always, click on each image to see them better in the Gallery.
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When the one occurred in 2009, the weirdo we had working security (who was investigated for stealing an AK-47 while in the army) told me that it was an indication of god’s fury about to be unleashed on sinners, then asked if I was feeling nervous 🙂
LOL. Dude, that’s one of the funniest comments I’ve gotten!!! hilarious!
LOL @ Nikhil’s comment!
That boy is a character!
Beautiful Micheal! Wonder what the ‘weirdo’ was saying about the moon dog………woof? We were always told such ‘signs’ were an indication of rain……
Thanks Cynthia,
woof!!!
Fortunately that night, we didn’t get rain 🙂
I always forget the name of these. This was an interesting read, thanks 🙂
Thanks Khadi, I always kept calling the Sundog a Perihelion, which is a different thing entirely 🙂