Pages Tagged “contrail”
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- Fragments of a sun halo and a couple of contrails
Looks like the usual 22-degree circular halo.
- Bisected Halo
A clear 22-degree halo around the sun, bright enough that I didn’t have to adjust the image afterward. This is straight from my phone. Even cooler: you can actually see the contrail’s shadow on the layer of cloud that’s producing the halo! The sun is behind the tree, and while the contrail pops out so […]
- Contrail / Launch
Photo: the kind of contrail view that starts rumors about imaginary missile launches.
- Vertical (Or Rather, Foreshortened) Contrail
Remember how people freaked out over a “missile launch” that turned out to be a contrail seen roughly end-on? Here’s another “vertical” contrail photo.
- Elongated Sundog and Contrail
I got off the freeway to catch the train out to the office last Tuesday morning, and saw this incredibly bright sundog off to the east. I couldn’t get a parking space, so I had to drive the rest of the way, but I did get a couple of photos. The sun is off-frame to […]
- Links: 1.0 Releases, Sci-Fi and Science Fact, The Missile that Wasn’t
Matt Mullenweg on Apple, WordPress & tech release strategy. 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number Robert J. Sawyer on the relationship between science fiction and science fact: The job of sci-fi isn’t to predict “THE future,” but “to suggest a smorgasbord of possible futures, so that society may choose the one it wants.” Mystery California missile […]
- Contrail Shadow, Halo, Haze & Sundog
Photos – It was a good morning for seeing interesting cloud and light formations in the sky.