This afternoon, I looked up into the sky and saw this peculiar colored area. I haven't enhanced it but sharpening, that's how it looked to the naked eye too. It looked more vibrant with my polarized sunglasses, but there was no filter used during the photo.
There was no precipitation happening... I've seen similar things like this in high level cirrus clouds, but never low like this. Is it just a weirdo "rainbow"?
Moisture particles suspended, sun refracted through, wavelengths separated as in prism.
Yep.
Specifically, those high, wispy clouds are made of ice crystals that are refracting the light.
That's kinda what I was thinking... I'd seen it in high cirrus clouds before, like I said. but this just seemed stranger because it was mixed with other clouds.
Thanks!
Yup, sun dog. Though usually the sundogs that I see are vertical. And if you see one to the left of the sun, look to the right of the sun and there's usually another one there.
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Oh yeah... I shot a sun dog a month ago. I forgot about it until I saw this post. It needed a two stop filter on it to get both sides so it came out a little dark. Here's the HDR and bumped a little in PSCS5.
