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Noemi,

Thank you for the wonderful photographs. I enjoyed both the pictures and the ensuing discussion here on this board.

@backstagediver My first objection was to DaveB's use of the word clearly . It's nice that you believe that the clouds are different, but looking at the images up close, it's simply not clear at all that the clouds are different. You completely missed my point regarding relative size. The distance f...

@DaveB As the two left most suns clearly have different clouds in front of them I cannot see that it is possible for the effect to have been caused by glass close to the camera. Clearly? Not so clearly to those on this board who've looked closely at those pictures with tools like Photoshop. @dockwat...

@Alnilam Your argument assumes that the two window panes are perfectly parallel. Even small differences in the distances between the windows or thickness of the glass will cause uneven distribution (or an upward or downward trend) of the ghost suns . I am now convinced that this was due to a window ...

I agree with keshlam. That flare (probably an atmospheric effect in the main sun due to its proximity to the water) below the second sun in picture 9805 looks like a reflection that happened much closer (like a window pane or camera effect). Since the photographer said that the secondary suns were v...