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Looking for #comet Pan-STARRS last night. A lot of people had chosen the same hillside park and were sharing their telescopes and binoculars as we watched the #sunset over the clouds, then the barely crescent #moon coming into view, and finally the comet itself. More at K2R: Comet Watch
Sunset Rainbow on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
A nearly full semicircle, redder than usual, taken just minutes before sunset. I had to stitch two photos together to get the whole thing, which messed with the aspect ratio a bit.
Every once in a while you get a perfect shot from the car. I was stopped at a traffic signal next to an area of road construction, and looked up at this crane, backlit by the sun.
An amazing circumhorizon arc that I saw last May. I had just crossed the street while walking to lunch when I looked up, saw it…and walked back to the office to get my camera!
It started out as just a couple of small segments, but as the clouds drifted into position it quickly grew, and at its strongest it was just long enough to fill the field of view on my camera. There were also a couple of fragments of a 22° circular halo visible at the time.
It looks like a sort of straightened-out rainbow, but it’s actually caused by ice crystals. If the right type of crystals cover the entire sky, this will actually stretch in a circle all the way around the sky, parallel to the horizon.
At times like this, I really wish I had a DSLR, but the point-and-shoot will do in a pinch.
Location: Irvine, California. May 14, 2010, 1:30pm
Maxfield Parrish Sky, originally uploaded by Kelson.
One night last October, I stepped out of the office building and felt like I’d stepped into a Maxfield Parrish painting. The whole sky looked like this. (Or at least the half that was visible.) It literally stopped me in my tracks.
I spent the next 15 minutes walking around the parking lot, watching the lighting on the clouds change as the sun set and taking pictures.