Sun Dog

There are two suns in the south south-east today, the second to the left of Sol.

I feel so sorry for those living in temperate climes where it's never a zillion below zero with ice crystals in the air so thick you can cut it with a knife. They never get to see two or three suns.

Oh that's the type of cold weather where your nose hairs stick together, right?

MacHeadCase said:

Oh that's the type of cold weather where your nose hairs stick together, right?

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Only after your nose falls off.

This thread confuses me. What are you talking about? Are you high?

it gets pretty cold here too, but i don't think i've ever seen what you're talking about. could it be the temp and the low angle of the sun up there near the top of the world.

Joe Redifer said:

This thread confuses me. What are you talking about? Are you high?

eric said:

it gets pretty cold here too, but i don't think i've ever seen what you're talking about. could it be the temp and the low angle of the sun up there near the top of the world.

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Here's an explanation. Wikipedia explains it, too.

The Wiki article says the ancient Greeks were stumped by the phenomenon, so I guess it doesn't necessarily depend on thermometer-shattering temperatures.

weird. i can't say i've ever seen that.

Cool.

Interesting!



- From Wikipedia.org

Nice photo but uhm... Could resize that one fleurya? It's a bit overboard, size-wise...

Sorry, I just linked it from Wikipedia.

No problem.

I wonder whether sundogs add to the general brightness, or whether the amount of refracted light from the sun that creates them is cancelled out.

Maybe a light-meter exposure reading of a grey card during their existence, then after they disappear would answer that.

Patrick Stewart as Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard had a throw-away line as he reclined in a pool-side chair on the pleasure planet Risa. "You're blocking the suns," he said to an amoral archeologist-treasure hunter.

Who needs pleasure planets, anyway?