I did not have a camera with me, but someone else in the village did…

Thank you to douglasmcbridephoto AT mac.com for sending the picture.

Wow, you’d wait years for that.

Nice!

stunning..

😀

Today.

Apparently it’s a Circumhorizontal Arc

Rainbow Cloud by SGMTB, on Flickr

That second one’s a sundog isn’t it? But the first one absolutely stunning, clearly an Alien cloaking device for observation purposes.

Apparently it’s a Circumhorizontal Arc

Never know what they were called but when I lived up in Moray I used to see those all the time – usually waiting just above my house when I was driving home from work

That’s an awesome photo Matt.

It’s been good out in the hills last couple of days hasn’t it. Bloody lovely

I’d say Circum horizontal Arc when comparing the pix on Google with ref to Sun Dogs.

Heres the same pix HDR’r in picasa to define it a bit.

Angel in the Sky by SGMTB, on Flickr

That second one’s a sundog isn’t it?

Looks like a sundog to me too. I saw one out on today’s ride as well, perfect conditions for it.

Circumhorizontal arcs have the colour spectrum running top to bottom, sundogs left-right or right-left.

Looks like a Dolphin after a Ready Brek breakfast ( other breakfast cereals are available )

That was my understanding too.

Oh and the top one is an orographic cloud. They form over mountains when air is forced up over higher ground and cools, thereby condensing the water vapour in the air roughly in the shape of the terrain. Ace to look at especially if lit up by morning or evening sun.

/cloud dork

There were beautiful stacks of lenticular clouds over the Ochils yesterday morning. They were lit by the sunrise in the East and each layer was a different colour/shade. Stunning.

Redthunder, we saw the same thing whilst driving down the A38 today, never seen that sort of thing before….it only seemed visable with sunglasses on!

Nice!

@Goz

Same area, if you were near Avonmouth, Bristol.

We were up between Gloucester and Dursley, didnt have a camera with me.

IMG_0712 by maffmtb, on Flickr

This is a circumzenithal arc, picture taken by my wife mid June 2010, in Worcester.
There are a few more pics on my Flickr page.

I’ll see your daytime cloud pictures and raise you a photo of a planet!

From light polluted South Manchester last night

That’s no moon

scaled, when i first looked at your picture I was thinking “hmmm, grainy shot of a shiny moon or a really weird picture of the sun”

but then I looked again and was like “holy shit, there’s an alien planet!!!!!”

😀

We think it’s the Moon + Jupiter.

The gf was only taking a picture of “La Bella Luna” for the toddler!

Planet? Are you sure its not just ghosting in the lens from the bright moon? Looks too big to be a planet seen from earth.

scaled
I see your planet and raise you its moons……….

Jupiter and its moons left to right Europa, Io, Calisto, (Ganymeade is in front of Jupiter)

jupiter is at its closest to the earth at the moment

however its the bright ‘star’ at the top of your photo

the other thing is the death star

zoom out of my pic above, from light polluted west london!

it is jupiter its at its closest to the earth at the moment

[kaesae] That’s just what they want you to think, it’s really the death star [/kaesae]

scaled what time was your pic taken? you can use stellarium to view the sky at that time and figure out whats where, – its how i labeled the moons on my pic