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- Glass Sundog
A bright sundog next to a glass-sided building. The sun is off to the left out of frame. The sundog had a bit more color and more of the spectrum in it as seen through my polarized sunglasses, so I kind of wish I’d taken a shot through one of the lenses, but at least […]
- Wispy Sundog Fragment
Wispy sundog fragment (colors enhanced). The colors were really easy to see through my polarized sunglasses, but just faded into the glare without them. My phone barely caught it, but the info was there once I stretched the saturation.
- Ball of Rainbow
A sundog looking like a ball of rainbow, and winter trees. The sun is out of frame to the right.
- Spring! Sundogs! Silhouettes!
For once it wasn’t the ocean view, but the *sky* that was the most impressive sight from Del Cerro Park up in the Palos Verdes hills.
- Bright Lines at Sunset
The bright line above the sun is just a contrail, high enough to catch the light without being tinted orange. The one off to the right is a sundog, ice crystals reflecting the sunlight. When I saw it I thought it was too far away to be an ordinary sundog, and might be part of […]
- Halo achievement unlocked: Spotted a parhelic circle.
I happened to look up in the opposite direction of the sun and saw a smooth, white upturned arc in the clouds.
- Look up in the sky!
You may never seen a halo around the sun or a sundog next to it, but they’re actually quite common. You just have to look up. (Just don’t stare at the sun!) I usually keep an eye out for sun halos whenever there’s a thin cloud layer, since there usually aren’t ice crystals near the […]
- Sundog, Saddleback, Clouds and Dust
Seen from near LAX through an office window. The Santa Ana winds have cleared away the smog, making the view unusually clear (until the dust takes its place). The sundog near the top of the frame was definitely in the sky and not on the window, and was visible no matter where I moved — […]
- Sundog above juniper trees.
This stood out starkly when viewed through my polarized sunglasses late Friday afternoon, but disappeared completely into the glare without them. I had to put my sunglasses in front of my phone to get this, and even then I enhanced the color saturation before posting. The sun is off to the left.
- 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 […]
- Contrail Shadow, Halo, Haze & Sundog
Photos – It was a good morning for seeing interesting cloud and light formations in the sky.
- Halo Triplet
Photo of three halos around the sun: a 22-degree circular halo, a circumscribed halo, and a sundog.
- Sundog
Friday was a good day for atmospheric optics. I watched a sundog for most of my drive home.
- Halo & Sundog
While driving toward the sun a little after 1:00 this afternoon, I noticed a faint reddish, slightly upturned patch in the sky ahead of me, and realized it was probably the bottom edge of a 22° sun halo. I was surprised, since the cloud cover looked too heavy for it, but it was there. At […]
- Pack of Sundogs
Last Wednesday, on my drive home from work, I spotted a sundog on the way home from work. I finally snapped it when I pulled into the parking lot at Trader Joe’s. The picture on the left was the best of the set, with the best contrast. The red is clearly visible on the end […]
- Sundog
Spotted a sundog last Wednesday (September 26), about an hour(?) before sunset. At least, I’m pretty sure that’s what it was, given the positioning, the brightness, and the reddish coloring on the end nearest the sun. The sharp edges of the reflecting cloud (a fragment of a contrail?) make it look a bit odd, though, […]
- Evening Skies
Here are a couple of photos, one just before sunset, the other just after, over the past month. First up is a twilight view of South Coast Plaza. On Friday the 13th, we went to the nearest Borders to pick up The End of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events and Neil Gaiman’s new short […]