I’m always looking up at the sky and today to my delight I spied a lovely halo around the Sun while we were driving along in the car, just as well I had all my camera gear with me as I needed a wide angle lens to capture it all.
These halos are quite special as they are made up of millions of tiny ice crystals in the high cirrus cloud that reflect and refract the Suns light to produce an amazing 22-degree ring around the Sun…now that’s quite awesome!
Another amazing thing about this phenomenon is that they are so personal, just like a rainbow; everybody see them differently because of their angle of view or the different size of the ice crystals from where they are standing.
Image taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Sigma 10-20mm lens @12mm, exposure time was 1/640th second and ISO100.
These halos are quite special as they are made up of millions of tiny ice crystals in the high cirrus cloud that reflect and refract the Suns light to produce an amazing 22-degree ring around the Sun…now that’s quite awesome!
Another amazing thing about this phenomenon is that they are so personal, just like a rainbow; everybody see them differently because of their angle of view or the different size of the ice crystals from where they are standing.
Image taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Sigma 10-20mm lens @12mm, exposure time was 1/640th second and ISO100.
~ Ring around the Sun ~
If you would like to know more about how these solar halo’s form then please go to Les Cowley’s excellent website called Atmospheric Optics at:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circ2.htm
If you want to be blown away by the beauty and science of atmospheric optics then go to the main website at: http://www.atoptics.co.uk
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circ2.htm
If you want to be blown away by the beauty and science of atmospheric optics then go to the main website at: http://www.atoptics.co.uk
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