From: Steve Miller (nanodog2@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 06:52:06 PDT
From: "Steve Miller" <nanodog2@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Pinhole Digest #939 - 06/05/02 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 06:52:06 -0700 Message-ID: <F12567ajQmAzZnPVbDI0001424d@hotmail.com>
Everyone in my school also noticed it with some excitement. At times there
was a second, reversed-rainbow band in the southeast, about 40 degrees above
the horizon. It was quite distinct, though it was only an arc of a circle.
Steve Miller
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>Subject: Pinhole Digest #939 - 06/05/02
>Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 00:20:01 -0700
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>Pinhole Digest #939 - Wednesday, June 5, 2002
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> solar halo display
> by "Paul Doherty" <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
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>Subject: solar halo display
>From: "Paul Doherty" <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
>Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:01:02 -0700
>
>On monday this week and at times over the last two weeks there have been
>fantastic displays of solar halos over the bay area.
>
>On Monday I saw a very bright 22 degree halo around the sun. One of the
>brightest I have ever seen. (This halo is made when sunlight refracts
>through ice crystals.)
>
>Between the halo and the horizon was a horizontal (slightly up curving)
>band of colors. The circumhorizontal arc. It is also caused by light
>refracting through ice crystals.
>
>
>Then there was also a white circle centered on the zenith, passing through
>the sun itself. This rare arc was a parhelic circle made by light
>reflecting off the faces of ice crystals.
>
>What did other pinholers see?
>
>Paul Doherty
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