AstronomersWithoutBorders

[Boanerges]

Sharing an interesting site for astronomy- https://astronomerswithoutborders.org

 

[Reinagg83]

I actually bought their starter telescope and its been so great, this is a great website! 👍

[rbrown1205]

This showed up in my facebook WHEW!!:

https://www.facebook.com/happening.page/videos/731373277602549

 

Edited April 23, 2020 by rbrown1205

[Friends just call me Ross]

Amazing sun dog footage!  Thanks for sharing, Sister Roberta.  

 

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, formally called a parhelion[1] (pluralparhelia) in meteorology, is an atmosphericoptical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Two sun dogs often flank the Sun within a 22° halo.

 

The sun dog is a member of the family of halos caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere. Sun dogs typically appear as a pair of subtly colored patches of light, around 22° to the left and right of the Sun, and at the same altitude above the horizon as the Sun. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season, but are not always obvious or bright. Sun dogs are best seen and most conspicuous when the Sun is near the horizon.

My family and I got to see a sun dog one frigidly cold Winter day while driving home from the city.

Freaked us out, cuz, way back then, (pre-Wikipedia) we had no idea what we were looking at.  

 

[rbrown1205]

Cool!  Apparently the people who recorded the video did not know what it was.  I wonder how a person who isn't previously knowing about it could look that up?  If I were to google it, I might have gotten a Disney movie!!

[Friends just call me Ross]

16 minutes ago, rbrown1205 said:

Cool!  Apparently the people who recorded the video did not know what it was.  I wonder how a person who isn't previously knowing about it could look that up?  If I were to google it, I might have gotten a Disney movie!!

I first found it by Googling 'three suns' phenomenon.  

[rbrown1205]

 I just googled "strange lights in the sky", and got this:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150928-ten-strange-lights-that-appear-in-the-sky

 

Apparently there are a number of different doo hickey's up there.  No wonder people in lands near or above the arctic circle have supernatural explanations for these strange sites!  My guess is that it is a combination of the moving magnetic fields affecting the atmosphere up near the North Pole, along with the unique refractions of light from the sun hitting the earth at strange angles...or something.  Anyway, it would make a fascinating trip - in the new system.