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Elliptical halo
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Dec 18 20:47:01 2005 UTC
I got this unusual elliptical halo saturday while
cutting wood. This type of halo is born from
light refracting through a special type pyramidal
crystal that has a gentle sloping pyramid. The
vertical radius of this halo can vary with sun
elevation. Sometimes there can be more than one
ellipse around the sun or moon.
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Elliptical halo 3-23-08 part 6
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Apr 6 15:52:01 2008 UTC
Here you can see a bluish ellipse close to the
sun, a fragment of a second on the right side and
finally a larger outer third.
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Elliptical halo 3-23-08 part 5
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Apr 6 15:52:01 2008 UTC
Here there are two eliipses and you can see they
are highly colored which is unusual.
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Elliptical halo 3-23-08 part
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Apr 6 15:52:01 2008 UTC
Normally elliptical halos are a whitish color but
here you can see color in it like classical halos
with red inside and blue on the outside. The
ellipse here is guite bright.
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Elliptical halo 3-23-08 part 3
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Apr 6 15:30:01 2008 UTC
This was the first stage and this was when I
spotted the halos and ran as fast as I could to
find a telephone pole as a sun blocker.
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Elliptical hal3-23-08 part 2
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Apr 6 15:30:01 2008 UTC
Here we see two ellipses notice the ellipse close
to the sun.
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Elliptical halo 3-23-08
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Apr 6 15:30:01 2008 UTC
This is part of a series of photos I got a rare
elliptical halo display that lasted over two
hours in Ohio USA. Elliptical halos are a special
type of halo that forms in dissolving altocumulus
AC clouds rather than the cirrus clouds. This
started out as a single ellipse that lasted for
10 minutes then disappeared but then came back
much brighter and would have up to three ellipses
at one time. As the cloud would move the halo
would shrink expand.
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Super double rainbow
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Apr 6 15:30:01 2008 UTC
This is another rainbow I got a month later and
this one is probably the best I have seen in
years not only was it very bright but the
secondary was bright and the primary showed at
least three interference supernummery bows. This
set of bows make some rainbows in past years I
have photographed look mediocre.
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Rainbow after a tornado 4-26-07
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Apr 6 15:08:01 2008 UTC
This was taken after a tornado producing
supercell swept through Adams Co. Ohio. My
brother who was in twon saw the tornado touch
down and later got pummeled by golfball hail. I
saw green skies and rotation.
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Last photo of aurora 2006
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 20:30:01 2006 UTC
This is all she wrote this was the last photo and
by then the aurora was just an arc and I was in
need of sleep.
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The breakup
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 20:30:01 2006 UTC
After the wild curtains, rays, and thin bands it
starts to faid to a usual green curtain and
notice the cloud.
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More of the thin green band
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 20:30:01 2006 UTC
Heres another of the thin green band except the
green band is not alone becuse to its left is a
thin red band. Oh what a way to end the show.
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Corona!!
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 20:15:01 2006 UTC
Now this is sweet I look to the west I see this
band of aurora going across the sky right
overhead!!! my first corona!!
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STD GALLERY
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 20:15:01 2006 UTC
Now this is interesting: under the green I see a
reddish border known as nitrogen fringing or as
some would call red belts.
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STD GALLERY
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 20:00:02 2006 UTC
Heres the part that gets me excited because the
entire arc becomes a smooth flowing curtain with
green and nice red rays and beams and even a
little yellow.
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Proton arc
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Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 20:00:02 2006 UTC
While the green was buildin up on the northern
horizon I look up ans spot a faint gray band and
after doing a minute long exposure I notice its a
proton arc. proton arcs are red or pinkish in
color and often proceed good aurora displays
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Wisconsin aurora the build up
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 19:45:01 2006 UTC
As the minutes pass the glow builds into a
long-lived green band, it kept this for over a
half and hour. The real show is yet to come.
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Start of the wisconsin aurora
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Jul 30 19:29:01 2006 UTC
The start of the aurora over Lake Archibald
Wisconsin. This gets better so don't go away.
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Number three this year for elliptical halos
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sun Dec 18 21:18:01 2005 UTC
This turns out to be the third observation of the
elliptical halo this year.
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Side view of the bows
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Wed Nov 2 01:39:01 2005 UTC
This one shows both bows and the supernummeries
inside the primary. This was done by tilting the
camera on its side.
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Very colorful fogbow supernummeries
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Wed Nov 2 01:26:01 2005 UTC
This one is awesome because here not only you see
secondary fogbow but also colorful interference
arcs inside the primary fogbow.
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Fogbow of 11-1-05
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Wed Nov 2 01:11:01 2005 UTC
Its the first month of November and it fogs up
and I turn on the headlights and get this
fantastic fogbow.
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Left side of car headlight fogbow
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sat Sep 17 04:10:01 2005 UTC
This is looking left notice the well defined
supernummery bow inside the primary bow. The moon
is visible at the top and its glare did not help
very much.
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Car fogbow with color
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sat Sep 17 04:10:01 2005 UTC
This other right hand view shows that some
fogbows are not all colorless. Here the outer
edge is reddish with a little yellow and the
inner edge is a light blue.
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Right side showing the secondary bow
Submitted by:
Michael Ellestad at Sat Sep 17 03:56:01 2005 UTC
This view shows the right side of the fogbow. The
wide diffuse band on the outside of the main bow
is the secondary.
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