Circular Ring Around the Sun (Sun-Dog Phenomenon MERGED)

[rodsky]

The funny thing about how this ENGLISH statement is constructed...

"Rainbow with a Black Hole in the Middle of the Sun"

...is that when you go over the words ONE by ONE, you don't really get a Sun Dog... you get this...



Effing hilarious XD

-RODION

[umpa-lumpa]

nice theories you got guys..keep em coming'

[ethzneuron]

@rodsky, what caused the black image on this video?
YouTube - Rainbow with a Black Hole in the Middle of the Sun

others have normal captures of the halo.. i say normal, meaning no "black holes".

Hi istoryan i have just look up the sky today around 11am i was amazed by the view i have captured..anybody have an idea with this phenomena?

Dire nalang nako e butang kay gi "CLOSE"

Pictures taken from my cam.







Time taken : 11:00am

[rodsky]

@rodsky, what caused the black image on this video?
YouTube - Rainbow with a Black Hole in the Middle of the Sun

That black hole is either the result of post-processing (i.e. video editing, which I highly doubt), or just the phone's CCD auto-shutting out the intense brightness of the sun to protect itself. Nothing extraordinary is going on.

-RODION

[alexandra]

saw it kanina... it looked cool... nice but at the same time scary....

[moy1moy1]

Natural phenomenon ... 5th time na gne naku ni nga sighting hehe... due to ice crystals mani by the cloud called "cirrostratus" (sk2 ba?), a very thin cloud composed of fine grain ice crystals.. ang so called halo kae parehag kinaiya sa rainbow, altough 'rain' ang mu refract sa light instead of 'ice'..

Black hole? d oi, guba lang ang cam sa pag vid ana haha nganu bitaw ge tutok sa sun, piti nuon ang mechanism sa imu camera ana hehe..

matud panila, mau nei senyales nga ang 2010 election mkdaog daw si erap hehe~ jwk ra..

[SioDenz]

warning na sa mga tawo nga magtarung ug butar karun election, di daw dapat mubutar ug kandidato nga HALlOw...

[EMERALD EARTH]

pasabot na na naay kagubot rong lunes... gubot sa mga hatag na kwarta lol..


bitaw kita sab mi ani ganiha kuyaw kaayo mura mag episode sa dragonball na naa lungag sa langit og nisulod si goko nya hell diay to....


pero sadya baya talan awon ang view kay clear sky gyod walay dagom na nag tabon...

[lomotel]

does that imply that the clouds above the Philippines has ice composition? i'm asking this coz I don't think ice can form in a temperature above 30 degrees C.

[rodsky]

does that imply that the clouds above the Philippines has ice composition? i'm asking this coz I don't think ice can form in a temperature above 30 degrees C.

Yes, there's ice in the upper clouds (i.e. cirrus etc.) even at the equator, and at the top of thunderheads (which is why, even in the tropics, you sometimes get hail). A very good example of how temperature drops with altitude is Mt. Kilimanjaro (a mountain with a snowcap in Africa). Unfortunately though, it doesn't have much of its old icecap anymore.

-RODION