Sun dogs
I was poking through my hard drive and found this delicious morsel that I took last Winter outside of New Ulm, MN with my four year-old Canon Powershot A20 digicam.
What you see is a parhelion, better known as sun dogs.
Sun dogs are produced when the clouds between the Sun and the observer contain ice crystals rather than droplets. They always occur at twenty-two degrees on either side of the sun.
Being a nerd, when I first saw this I panicked and honked madly at the car I was following to pull over so I could take this shot. My day was then officially made.
"ma'am"
8 Comments:
That's friggin' cool. I've never seen/heard of that before. Thanks for sharing your nerd-ly-ness. :-)
Very cool pic Erik!
You're not a nerd, I would have done the same thing.
Or does that just mean I'm a nerd too?
I heart nerds.
Oh, I wouldn't mind adopting a few sun dogs as a pet! I would love to place them in my backyard and give them the royal treatment every single day. Oh, and sure I'll name one Erik.
sad to say...
but i dont know wht is this...
sun dogs never heard before this...
cool....
THREE SUNS! AIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!
ive never heard of that either. ive heard of (and seen) the green flash that occures when the sun sets over the ocean near the equator. but i think youre just seeing things here.
bricotrout: I wouldn't imagine that you would have heard of this phenomenon, as you're from North Carolina. You'll only find this in the colder climes.
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