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Saturday, May 01, 2010

rings around the sun - celestial spectacle

we witnessed a superb sight at around noon.
the skies had cleared from the overnight rains by around 11 noon and the sun appeared very shortly.
as we looked up, we saw this:


and we gaped and gaped through squinted eyes/wearing goggles at this:




this is supposed to be the 22 degree halo.
it has to be related to the 12 hours of drizzly rain.

3 comments:

dv said...

great photos. makes up for missing it - by just two hours.

Pushpraj said...

Great Photos.. is it a SLR camera or a simple point and shoot ?

csm said...

simple point and shoot - samsung PL 55 model.