Friday, 14 October 2016

'Glory'

 

Looking out of the window of the plane today I was surprised to see a bright ring of rainbow coloured circles on the clouds below around a perfect shadow of the plane.

 

Although it looks like a tiny complete circle rainbow, this optical phenomenon, caused by the sun catching drops of moisture on the cloud surface is apparently known as a 'Glory'.  I have never seen anything quite like it!

2 comments:

  1. Interesting! I wonder If I'll be as lucky and catch that phenomenon, on one my future trip to Brussels, I would like that, may be if go trough UK I can see that ;)!!! Glad you're back!

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  2. I read something the other day about a rainbow around a skydiver. They had seen rainbow rings before but never around the actual skydiver

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