Look At Photos, Anyone Know What Causes This?

[funfun]

JUST PHOTOGRAPHED THE SUN AND IT LOOKS WIERED TODAY, ANYONE KNOW OWT ABOUT IT?

[soundman]

Its called a halo.

Produced by unusual atmospheric conditions - usually from too much pollution in the air I think.

Anyway - there's allready a thread about this in the Pattaya sub forum.

Cheers,

Soundman.

[marginline]

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[funfun]

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AND THERES ME THINKING ID JUST INVENTED A NEW SUN!, WELL AT LEAST ILL HAVE TO CELIBRATE NOW WITH A BEER!

[cdnvic]

It's often caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Usually means rain is in the offing.

[Etrigan]

Ice particles in the upper stratosphere reflecting sunlight. You can see it with the moon too.

[marginline]

This might explain what's going on funfun; please click here.

AND THERES ME THINKING ID JUST INVENTED A NEW SUN!, WELL AT LEAST ILL HAVE TO CELIBRATE NOW WITH A BEER!

Hey...I'll join you. Cheers!

[GuestHouse]

As I'm sure you can imagine the Thais have attached numerous superstitions to this phenomena. Some years ago a number of our staff galloped off to the temple on seeing a halo around the sun.

But not just the Thais, there is a reference in Suetonius about such a halo being seen as a portent of victory to the army of Julius Caesar during one of his campaigns in Gaul.

That would suggest then that while pollution might be a cause, it is not the only cause. Unless we have evidence of large scale atmospheric pollution at the time of the Gallic Wars. (Burning hovels perhaps?!)

Edited June 1, 2007 by GuestHouse

[PhilHarries]

That looks like a halo as already described but under certain atmospheric conditions you can get two rainbows, one a full circle, around the sun. On the full circle, if you get a real good one, you will see five (I think - but maybe seven) bright points of light.

A truly wonderous thing is atmospherics.

[cdnvic]

That looks like a halo as already described but under certain atmospheric conditions you can get two rainbows,

[marginline]

A truly wonderous thing is atmospherics.

Indeed! Let's give a big round of applause to gravity.

[Aujuba]

I've never seen one. Seen plenty of rainbows though. What does this mean to all of Thailand's fortune tellers and TRT?

[cheshiremusicman]

JUST PHOTOGRAPHED THE SUN AND IT LOOKS WIERED TODAY, ANYONE KNOW OWT ABOUT IT?

Yes its 'Halo's' caused by the diffraction of the sunlight through water vapour droplets in the upper atmosphere, causing the same effect as a rainbow except it produces circular rainbows, not the half moon type that we normally see from the ground.

Seen the same in the UK and also at night with the moon as the light, only this time it was even more spectacular as it was formed by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere which gave a very ghostly spreading halo.

[h90]

JUST PHOTOGRAPHED THE SUN AND IT LOOKS WIERED TODAY, ANYONE KNOW OWT ABOUT IT?

that means our all end is near....

[pampal]

It means the End is Near

[keebone]

It's a bad omen of huge cultural and social significance to the Thais.

It means that the month of June will be a bad one for quality of somtam.

[Gary A]

It means find a cave. The sky is falling.

[MiG16]

notice how the bangkok post also photographed the TRT building set with the halo in the background?

if u want to know what thais make of it...put 2 and 2 together....doomsday for TRT....doomsday for thai politics...etc etc. so to dramatise the effect they take a photo of TRT building (who have just faced the biggest bad 'luck'/mishap)

[Mid]

It's often caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Usually means rain is in the offing.

marine lore calls for rain in 24hrs ...........

[chevykanteve]

JUST PHOTOGRAPHED THE SUN AND IT LOOKS WIERED TODAY, ANYONE KNOW OWT ABOUT IT?

Obviously, this is NOT a halo. It is a Platonic Perfect Shape, observed on Earth to remind us all that Santa will be coming soon. Six more shopping months till Christmas, folks!

[soundman]

It's often caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Usually means rain is in the offing.

marine lore calls for rain in 24hrs ...........

Heavy rain was forecast for today. Didn't eventuate though, clear skies all around..

Cheers,

Soundman.

[paveet]

The Bangkok Post had a similar photo on their front page yesterday, except the Halo was above the TRT's head office building..

[macb]

WEll I had to research cos I aint clever like you lot :

So here is a link with the correct scientific explanantion. plus I cant spell Optical phenomenon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(optical_phenomenon)

[torito]

In Pattaya?.....steamy window, coming from the body heat!