Questions tagged [atmospheric-optics]
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Explanation for contrail with a dark line
I have recently taken a picture while on a walk, which is showing a phenomenon I cannot really find an explanation of.
A contrail was visible in the air, backed with a dark line that went all the way to the ground. The dark line was visible only for…
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Help understanding this image of an unusual double reflected rainbow
The BBC News item Double reflected rainbow photographed in Orkney shows an unusual kind of double rainbow.
According to the article:
The image was captured by Martin Gray at Gyran on Tuesday morning, who described the sight as "amazing".
He said:…
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Why are these patterns of scattered sunlight aligned to the local horizontal and vertical directions?
The information discussed in the CleanTechnica article Full Fledged 5 Alarm Climate Emergency In Antarctica is certainly disconcerting, but the stock photo of the sky and various atmospheric phenomena of sunlight scattered in the atmosphere is still…
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Unusual small bright ring in storm cloud
I was taking photos of a storm moving through the area, Southwest of Fort Worth, Texas and caught this image in one of the series. The photography is a hobby. I was using my IPhone 6. I researched meteorological optical phenomena, rings, circles,…
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