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Interesting image over Sweden

[quote="retrogalaxy"]

I bet it is Sunset because there is too much people outside for the morning. Nice candle..[/quote]
[c]You shouldn't bet too much money before reading the Explanation (i.e., Look up!)

[color=#0000FF][size=135]Östersund Sunrise: 9:28 AM Dec. 11
Östersund Sunset: 2:18 PM Dec. 11[/size][/color][/c][quote="owlice"]

[list]Yes. [/list]
[quote]a sun-pillar reflects light from a Sun[b] setting[/b] over Östersund, Sweden. [/quote][/quote]

forget the bet

[quote="retrogalaxy"]I bet it is Sunset because there is too much people outside for the morning. Nice candle..[/quote]
Yes.
[quote]a sun-pillar reflects light from a Sun[b] setting[/b] over Östersund, Sweden. [/quote]

I bet it is Sunset because there is too much people outside for the morning. Nice candle..

[float=left][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5xtxs221w0[/youtube][/float]

[quote="Ann"]

Östersund, where this picture was taken,
is not all that far from Åre,[/quote]

I want to be a tourist in Sweden some day... what a lovely country. Sigh. Oh, also a lovely sun pillar.

[quote="Poissant"]What is the setting, a tourism spot? There are many people in the photo.[/quote]

Well, as a Swede with no interest whatsoever in winter sports, I don't exactly know, but I have to agree that this looks tourist-y. Those houses look like the sort of cottages that winter sport freaks might hire for a couple of weeks in the winter.

Östersund, where this picture was taken, is not all that far from Åre, one of the real tourist traps in Sweden.

Ann

What is the setting, a tourism spot? There are many people in the photo.

I don't think I have ever seen one, THANKS!!! That is really neat!

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I've been lucky enough to see a sun pillar! :D

In this case, the ice crystals do not fall from high level clouds. They seem to be a part of the thin ice fog forming at sunset with rapidly falling air temperatures.
Leif

[quote="Ann"]People in Stockholm were all abuzz over [url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8d1-gCrJRIs/ULyP2AktE6I/AAAAAAAAFqU/ZGLRgQnPiMY/s1600/tipsa-1978253206968959085.jpg]these light pillars[/url] that appeared over the Swedish capital recently. Apparently it's the light from streetlamps and other articficial illumination that is being reflected here.[/quote]
Yes, these have been featured in several APODs: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020902.html, http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090112.html.

People in Stockholm were all abuzz over [url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8d1-gCrJRIs/ULyP2AktE6I/AAAAAAAAFqU/ZGLRgQnPiMY/s1600/tipsa-1978253206968959085.jpg]these light pillars[/url] that appeared over the Swedish capital recently. Apparently it's the light from streetlamps and other articficial illumination that is being reflected here.

Ann

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121218.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_121218.jpg[/img] [size=150]A Sun Pillar Over Sweden[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Have you ever seen a [url=http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/pillar.htm]sun pillar[/url]? When the air is cold and the Sun is rising or [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980526.html]setting[/url], falling ice [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal]crystals[/url] can reflect sunlight and create an [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap021110.html]unusual[/url] column of light. Ice sometimes forms flat, six-sided [url=http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/primer/primer.htm]shaped crystals[/url] as it falls from high-level [url=http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html]clouds[/url]. [url=http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/newtlaws/efar.cfm]Air resistance[/url] causes these crystals to lie nearly flat much of the time as they flutter to the ground. Sunlight reflects off crystals that are [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020902.html]properly aligned[/url], creating the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_pillar]sun-pillar[/url] effect. In the [url=http://blogg.astrofotografen.se/2012/12/solpelare.html]above picture[/url] taken last week, a [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?sun+pillar]sun-pillar[/url] reflects light from a Sun setting over [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96stersund]Östersund[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden]Sweden[/url].

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