Took a cool pic?

amazinblue82 said:
thats a cool shot...good eye and/or good luck to catch that at right time :)

was the "halo" around the plane and caught on the cloud with the shadow OR is that some sort of property on/in the inner plastic/outer glass of the window creating that effect?

if the former, i gotta research the refractory science behind that to learn how it happens in this context. its the nerd in me..can't help it :)

could be this? a "glory" .. if so, its definitely outside the plane.

Glory (optical phenomenon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A glory is an optical phenomenon that resembles an iconic saint's halo about the shadow of the observer's head, caused by light of the Sun or (more rarely) the Moon interacting with the tiny water droplets that make up mist or clouds. The glory consists of one or more concentric, successively dimmer rings, each of which is red on the outside and bluish towards the centre. The effect is believed to happen due to classical wave tunneling, when light nearby a droplet tunnels through air inside the droplet and, in the case of a glory, is emitted backwards due to resonance effect​
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Not sure, but here's a second shot.

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300rag said:
Not sure, but here's a second shot.

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yeah i think you caught a "glory" (first time I ever heard of such a thing until i looked it up today) .. a refractory "event" in the same vein of rainbows and sun-dogs, etc., that are sprinkled through this thread.

i have seen these shadows with "halos" of the airplane i was riding in, on cloud tops we were descending through, several times in 40 years of flying..but never caught a shot of one.

the halo always followed the shadow as the shadow moved across the cloud top so
i assumed it was some sort of heat signature from the plane creating the halo.. or something about the plexi-glass construction of the outer window -- but neither seems to be the case.

thanks!
 
Took this at a local "Cars and Coffee" cruise this morning. My 70 300 and A12 Roadrunner that I used to own.

 
Cold Front over Ohio May 9, 2016 ... from about 50 miles away (red circle on radar map, that I looked up this morning May 10, is about where I was), and what it really looked like from the ground.

what's cool to me are the angles .. weather pattern is "slanting" NW to SE, southerly of the setting sun. exactly where the radar said it was ..

i know i know..of COURSE its there. i think its cool the way weather radar works that's all. its very reliable technology.

I was traveling West on the Ohio Turnpike (I-80/90). About 20 minutes later, it was raining.

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This plant is about 200 yards from the road (that's a subject for another thread).

Around that curve to the right (a truck was riding my a** so I couldn't get a good pic) you can see the whole thing (cooling tower plus reactor building, etc).

I have never seen a nuclear plant up close .. I will try to get it a night next trip through.

I am kinda nervous stopping and taking pictures of it ... next thing i know I'm on a no-fly list :(

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Taken tonight, close to home. Wind sure did rattle us and the house.

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barnfind said:
Taken tonight, close to home. Wind sure did rattle us and the house.

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stunning..and yes scary. great shots! glad everythings ok after the rattling. :)

I think you caught a "shelf" cloud, hence the gusty winds and spectacular shape!

Arcus cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A shelf cloud is a low, horizontal, wedge-shaped arcus cloud. A shelf cloud is attached to the base of the parent cloud, which is usually a thunderstorm. Rising cloud motion often can be seen in the leading (outer) part of the shelf cloud, while the underside often appears turbulent and wind-torn.

Cool, sinking air from a storm cloud’s downdraft spreads out across the land surface, with the leading edge called a gust front. This outflow cuts under warm air being drawn into the storm’s updraft. As the lower cooler air lifts the warm moist air, its water condenses, creating a cloud which often rolls with the different winds above and below (wind shear).

People seeing a shelf cloud may believe they have seen a wall cloud. This is a likely mistake, since an approaching shelf cloud appears to form a wall made of cloud. A shelf cloud usually appears on the leading edge of a storm, and a wall cloud will usually be at the rear of the storm​
 
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Amazing pictures, just awesome!
 
Awesome pics, barnfind!

I hope I'll never need to see anything like this on my sky... So, I'll stay on my little and quite harmless Finnish ground!
 
These were taken at the historic Vanderbilt estate on the Hudson in between Rhinebeck and Hyde Park. Beautiful place, worth putting on your long bucket list.
There's something about a waterfall...

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Few more. A couple I put the camera really close to the water.

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The Vanderbilt mansion
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One of the buildings in the garden.
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The gardeners house.
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Oops, how did that get in there.
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The 2 appeared to have been connected at one point.
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More from the garden. They're still growing all the same flowers that have been bred there since the beginning and the lower garden down the steps are all roses.

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