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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Aerial Glories

Aerial Glories

I never knew much about one of my favorite photos. What caused the colors, this halo?

The mystery and speculation were pleasurable, I'll admit, but only for a while. Searches for an explanation were useless, as I lacked the vocabulary necessary to divine a description of the rings I found so pretty. The quick syntax I submitted is hilarious in hindsight: "airplane rainbow circle", "ring plane spectrum", "corona clouds shadow".

Thanks to the connective magic of Flickr, the word Glory is now of my employ. In a comment posted 4 weeks ago, but unread until today, Permaculture gave me the lead I was looking for; a link to Atmospheric Optics, from which I nicked the above images and solid understanding of what I witnessed from that plexi porthole.

Image 1: Philip Laven
Image 2: Franz Kerschbaum
Image 3: Jonathan Lansey
Image 4: Nik Szymanek

Posted by Andy at 11:53 PM - Permalink

Blogger Tiff thought:

I love these pictures, the halos make the picture so much more beautiful!

November 16, 2005 at 1:23 PM - Comment Permalink  
Blogger My Name Is Fenny thought:

wow .. i didn't know rainbows looked like that from up top.

November 25, 2005 at 1:09 AM - Comment Permalink  

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