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Here's a one-stop-shop for everything you would ever want to know about all the common, rare, weird and wonderful optical effects in our atmosphere. There's even an Optics Picture of the Day (OPOD) where you can submit images for selection: ____________________
SOME OF MY CLOUD AND WEATHER PHOTOS: ____________________
SOME MORE OF MY ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS PHOTOS:
Strong 22-degree halo around the sun, 5 December 2009. Freguent halos
Upper tangent arc, with small parhelia (Sun Dogs) showing each side. 5 May 2009. Frequent halos
Another strong upper tangent arc, with no 22-deg halo or sun dogs. 31 May 2009
Sun dogs, 22-degree halo and upper tangent arc, 5 May 2009. Frequent halos
22-degree halo, with Sun setting behind hills. Taken at Smoko, Victoria, Australia, 31 May 2009
22-degree halo with faint circumzenithal arc near top of frame, 18 June 2009. Circumzenithal arc
Crepuscular rays, 7 February 2009. Crepuscular rays
Sky-wide sun rays, 7 February 2009. Sky-wide rays
Crepuscular rays, 4 April 2009
Rainbow with secondary bow above, Niue Island, 22 August 2007. Secondary
Rainbow with supernumeraries on underside, 24 March 2007. Supernumeraries
Sea spray bow, Niue Island, 19 August 2007
Cloud iridescence, 17 April 2009
Lunar Corona, 5 May 2009
Desert sunset, White Cliffs, NSW, 16 November 2008
Sun Dog & 22 degree halo, 13 April 2009
Crepuscular rays in sunset, 24 October 2007
Dramatic sunset, 30 November 2007
Another brilliant sunset, 4 January 2009
Extreme 22-degree lunar halo! Normally associated with bright gibbous phases and full Moons, this faint halo was around the thin crescent phase, 4.78 days old (insert at top right). Quite easily visible to the eye, it took a long exposure and considerable post-processing to bring it out. 26 July 2009
"Bushfire Sun". Eerily coloured sun shines through bushfire smoke as it sets, 21 April 2009. See Rayleigh scattering
"Red Bow" - rainbow reddened in sunset colours, 11 October 2009
"Bushfire Moons" - Moon shining through bushfire smoke, 8 February 2009. See Rayleigh scattering
 Reddened rainbow in sunset, truncated by Earth shadow. Taken at Mt Hotham, Victoria, Australia, 21 April 2010
 Green flash, 6 July 2011, imaged from the cruise liner "Pacific Pearl" near the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific.
 Green flash, 7 July 2011
 Green flash, 10 July 2011
 Pacific Ocean sunset, 16 July 2011
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All photographs taken with Canon 400D Click on image to enlarge...  Sunset from my backyard, 8 March 2008 http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/sunsets.htm
 Contrail shadow and "Sun Dog" (parhelia), 7 March 2009 http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/contr1.htm  Very bright sun dog with parhelic circle extending out to right, 5 May 2009
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm   Ice halos, 6 May 2011. Overprocessed to show faint trace of a rare Parry arc.
 Circumzenithal arc (top), upper tangent arc on 22-degree halo (centre-bottom) and cloud iridescence (bottom), 1 June 2010
Circumzenithal arc, 23 April 2010 http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz425.htm  22-degree halo around the Sun, 15 January 2009 http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circular.htm
 22-degree halo around the Moon, 10 April 2009
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circmoon.htm
 22-degree lunar halo, 9 January 2009
 Cloud iridescence, 11 October 2009
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/irid1.htm
Double lunar corona, very 'tight' on the Moon. The inner ring conforms strongly to the phase of the Moon. Photographed at Buchan, Victoria, Australia, 14 May 2009 http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/cormoon.htm
 Strongly-coloured double lunar corona in broken cloud. Photographed at Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, 11 March 2009
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/cormoon.htm
 Lunar crepuscular rays ("moonbeams"), 10 January 2009
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz181.htm
 More lunar crepuscular rays, 7 February 2009
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/raymoon.htm
 Strong rainbow and secondary, 11 October 2009
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz313.htm
 Corona/aureole around Venus, 24 September 2010.
 Contrail shadow thrown by Moon onto high cloud, 24 September 2010 http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz508.htm
______________________________________ All photos taken at Bright, Victoria, Australia (36.7° S, 147.0° E) unless otherwise stated. |
