Just had some huge cirrus fibratus and circumzenithal arc.
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Via #OPG_AO: How many stars appear colored to the naked eye? https://bit.ly/4rQuGDE #AtmosphericOptics #NakedEyeAstronomy💡⚛️
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Amazing!
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#ZodiacalLight is a faint cone of light caused by sunlight reflecting off #InterplanetaryDust. Imaged from #Oxfordshire 15 Mar '26. #Canon1100D + 10mm & 18mm lenses. 20 & 18 images stacked in #Sequator with & without LP removal. More details in the VLOG I shared yesterday #AtmosphericOptics
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Sun pillar as the sun sets
#strathearn #perthshire #scotland #photography #dronephotography #landscape #hdr #atmosphericoptics
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Sun pillar as the sun sets
#strathearn #perthshire #scotland #photography #dronephotography #landscape #hdr #atmosphericoptics
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I think you've captured a sun halo in that lovely sky picture (pink bright V shape), probably an upper tangent arc, or less likely (but more exciting!) a Parry arc 🌞
#AtmosphericOptics
www.atoptics.org.uk/halosim.htm
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A real #sunset treat on Fri 20 Mar '26, a #SunPillar + #UpperTangentArc! Tangent arcs change shape dramatically with changing sun altitude so this was a deep V-shape that was sunset pink colour. Photos taken from #Oxfordshire, UK with a #Fairphone4 mobile phone camera #AtmosphericOptics
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Phonescoped image of the sun through a layer of fog showing three big sunspot regions
Phoenscoped image of the sun through a haze of Saharan dust in the atmosphere, complete with passing plane
Good views of the sun today thanks to natural filters of fog this morning and Saharan dust this evening. Great to see the details of sunspot regions 4378, 4381 and 4384 😎🛬 #atmosphericoptics
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Caught these rare Light Pillars dancing in the sub-zero air. It happens when flat ice crystals (diamond dust) turn the sky into a giant mirror, reflecting city lights into vertical beams. Pure magic at -20°C! 🌌📸#LightPillars #AtmosphericOptics #NightPhotography #WinterMagic
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An Editors' Pick via #OPG_AO: Halo brilliance: real versus ideal https://bit.ly/4biMgMb #IceCrystalHalos #AtmosphericOptics💡⚛️
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More #AtmosphericOptics from Oxfordshire UK on 14 Jan '26. #22DegreeHalo #UpperTangentArc #SupralateralArc + faint #CircumzenithalArc. They show up better after colour subtraction.
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Gorgeous #Parhelia (#sundogs) from Oxfordshire, UK 14 Jan '26. The left side #Parhelion was visible first, and once it faded the right side one appeared. Both were gorgeous! #AtmosphericOptics
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Lots of #LightPillars appeared between 02:00-03:30UT on 10/11 Jan 26 on our auroracam & meteor cameras in Oxfordshire, UK. The more I watch the video the more faint pillars I can see! Light pillars form when unshielded lights reflect of flat plate ice crystals in the atmosphere #AtmosphericOptics
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#Corona around Jupiter, 10 Jan '26. 4sec exposure with 300mm zoom lens. Jupiter + 3 moons are slightly trailed but I needed long exposure to pick up the colours. Coronas are caused by diffraction around water droplets. Oxfordshire, UK #AtmosphericOptics
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New video! In this one I am looking at a couple of the painted folios in #DasWunderzeichenbuch ( #TheBookofMiracles ) depicting #AtmosphericOptics displays. Watch here: youtu.be/96isAg7REn4?...
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Faint parhelia ("sun dogs") are visible on either side of the Sun and are also reflected in the waters of Ashurst Lake. 5-stop ND filter used for a longer exposure.
Sunset colors appear just above the horizon and are also reflected in the waters of Ashurst Lake. 5-stop ND filter used for longer exposure.
Trees along the shore of Ashurst Lake are reflected in the still waters.
•Faint parhelia lie on either side of the Sun and are reflected in the waters of Ashurst Lake.
•Sunset colors are present in the sky and water.
•Reflections of trees in the still waters of Ashurst Lake.
#landscape 📷 #AtmosphericOptics
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Foggy night, and a lunar halo stole the show! 🌕✨ Multicolored corona around the moon - a rare moonbow! Caused by ice crystals or water droplets refracting light. #NatureLovers #LunarHalo #Moonbow #AtmosphericOptics
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Nighttime winter scene in Fairbanks, Alaska. A snow-covered road with deep tire tracks runs straight into the distance. Beyond the road, bright city lights create numerous tall, vertical light pillars rising into the dark sky. The pillars vary in brightness and height, forming pale white and bluish columns above the horizon beneath a low cloud layer.
Vertical light pillars above a snowy landscape in Fairbanks, Alaska at night. A bright orange light source near the ground produces a vivid orange pillar extending upward, surrounded by multiple white and bluish pillars from nearby lights. Leafless shrubs and small trees appear in silhouette in the foreground, with snowbanks and a low ridge separating the viewer from the lights.
A winter night scene showing tall, narrow light pillars rising above a dark treeline in Fairbanks, Alaska. The pillars are evenly spaced and pale white, stretching upward into a cloudy sky. In the foreground, power lines and a utility pole cut diagonally across the frame, with frozen grasses and low shrubs visible at ground level.
Light pillars above an industrial area in Fairbanks, Alaska at night. A long, low industrial building sits in the foreground behind a chain-link fence, surrounded by snow. Numerous vertical light pillars rise from bright lights around the buildings, forming white and faintly colored columns against a dark blue sky. A single brighter pillar stands out on the left side of the frame.
Some of the most intense and vivid light pillars I've seen on the south side of Fairbanks tonight! I took a few more photos: photos.lwpetersen.com/Recent-Photos
#alaska #lightpillar #atmosphericoptics #fairbanks #nightsky
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Blue sky with wispy clouds and the sun screened out by a nearby house. Within one of the clouds above the sun, is a small bright arc of of colour, like a tiny upside down rainbow.
An upper tangent arc seen in yesterday's wispy clouds.
#AtmosphericOptics
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An iridescent cloud glows in the winter twilight sky above the rooftops of Centennial, Colorado. Canon 6D Mark II, Canon 25-140mm lens.
Sleep softly
Under iridescent skies.
Our dreams,
Our peace,
Our reveries
Are the new becomings.
Happy #BlueSkyMonday, dear friends! 💙
#EastCoastKin #AtmosphericOptics
#ImageAndVerse #photography
#PhotographersofBlueSky #poetry
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There’s a bit of magic happening in the skies this morning 💫
#MoonHalo #LunarHalo #AtmosphericOptics #Moo #NightSky #Astronomy #Astrophotography #MoonPhotography #Celestial #Nature #NightPhotography #Skywatch #MoonMagic #CosmicBeauty
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Nice rainbow on the Aurora Cam at Cresswell this afternoon. 🌈
You can view the LIVE Sky Cameras here...
northumberland-astro.space/sky-cameras/
#Rainbow #AtmosphericOptics
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Some funky atmospheric optics on the LIVE Sky Cameras this morning. Here’s a timelapse and All-Sky photo.
I was thinking moonbow, but I’ve never seen one this shape before (it's not very curved !). I’d welcome any expert opinions on this.
#Moonbow #AtmosphericOptics @stormhour.com
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Beautiful halo with a nicely positioned cloud above Airlie Beach, QLD, Australia earlier today. #stormhour #atmosphericoptics
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#LightPillars captured on our auroracam early hrs of 22 Nov '25, at two different times. Yet again one of the groups is a distinctive circular patch of light pillars and I'm dying to know where the unshielded light source is! #AtmosphericOptics
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