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Old 02-13-2004, 11:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
Rodney
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Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town
Two suns in the sky...

Anybody ever see this? I was commuting to work one morning with my wife, and I actually saw two suns in the sky, poking through the clouds, one a little smaller than the other but some distance away. Did a little research, and found out that the phenomenon is called a parhelion, or sun dog, and it's cause by refraction of sunlight through masses of regularly aligned ice crystals in the upper atmosphere; under the right conditions, they form a giant lens.

Here's a pretty good approximation of what we saw, although ours was in the morning and we could only see one "dog;" it's always possible the other was hidden by clouds, or couldn't been seen from the angle we were at.

http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/webcam/sun_dog.html

Or, maybe it's all a dream and my mind was hazed by the chemtrails...
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