And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, June 29, 2020
Flying into Denver commercial once, I saw the plane's shadow do exactly this on the cloud deck just below us.
A glory is correct. A similar effect is the Brocken spectre. Some interesting history can be found by researching Ben Nevis in Scotland and the invention of the cloud chamber by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.
It's called sundog, and it's quite çommon. I used to see them all the time when I was flying my own airplanes.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a parahelion, or 'sunndog'. This is a glory, a 369* rainbow with your shadow in the center (your eye is is in the optical center).
ReplyDeleteNotice the jet shadow appears off center. But the cockpit is in the center. Even more, the focal plane of the camera is in the precise center.
Happens everyday, while flying over clouds. You just have to see it!
ReplyDeleteThis is not a parahelion, or a 'sunndog' or a glory, or a 369* rainbow
ReplyDeleteIt's called a pilots rainbow. It's a 360 degree rainbow with the airplanes shadow in the middle
It is what the person who saw it calls it. if you say otherwise, you're just talking to the sky.
A glory is correct. A similar effect is the Brocken spectre. Some interesting history can be found by researching Ben Nevis in Scotland and the invention of the cloud chamber by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.
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