Posted on 03/24/2009 6:06:29 PM PDT by TaraP
On March 20th, Danish photographer Jesper Gronne looked up at the clouds and saw not just one or two but three concentric halos around the sun. Before the rare display could fade, he grabbed his camera (a Canon 5D) and snapped more than 20 pictures. Stacking the images on his computer yielded a pin-up quality record of the event: I never expected to see such a rich variety of ice halos here in lowland Denmark--and it's not even winter anymore!" he marveled.
What could cause such an apparition? Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley explains: "We can work outwards from the sun to explore the mysteries of this display. The first ring is an exceptionally bright and rare 9-degree halo made by tumbling pyramidal ice crystals in the clouds. The same crystals also produced displays on the other side of the North Sea the night before. The inner halo's bright upper and lower patches could be something very rare indeed, plate arcs from aligned pyramids. But we must be cautious, they could just be spots of thicker cloud!"
"The next bright ring is at first sight the common 22-degree halo but with so many pyramidal crystals about it could also be a combination of other pyramidal halo rings. There are hints too of 18 degree pyramidal halos inside it. At least the two sundogs are familiar sights!"
"Farther from the sun at top is another familiar halo, the ‘smile-in the-sky' circumzenithal arc made from ordinary ice plates. But the one touching it and curving downwards is another mystery. We know it is either a supralateral arc or a 46 degree halo. But if a supralateral, we would expect an upper tangent arc from the same column crystals – there is none. If a 46 degree halo then the inner 22 degree ring should be much brighter! Displays like this one are fascinating and need long studies of many photos to unravel and be sure of their secrets."
All that’s missing is obama’s head in the middle.
Global Warming
Maybe God is sending them a message to return to God before the muslims take over Scandinavia.
The Danes are very nice people and the women are hot too.
;-)
Eye in the Sky...
Looks like an eye....keeping watch. They better say their prayers and atone.
You beat me to it. Has to be it, though. No other rational explanation fits. /s
Thought you would like this for a pic of the week.
It's the Sign. One of the Seven Signs of the Apocalypse.
Beauty!
Signs and wonders in the heavens.
It’s a PR stunt for a new StarGate series. Probably going to be called Obamantis SG-2
60 more days till spring? Sure feels like it here without the weird sun photos........
Just what I was going to say: Eye in the Sky
Or the Heavenly Tabernacles in John’s Vision..Which are 3 as well....
You live in a most beautiful place!
Nothing strange about this at all. The Obamessiah was visiting home for a short time.
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