On the above date and time near Comrie, Perthshire, my sister and I saw what seemed to be a particularly bright cloud in the sky, like when the sun is behind a cloud, however it wasn't that because the sun was behind us as we were looking at it. Fortunately, my sister took a photo with her phone and the result is amazing - the best way to describe it is it looks just like a sundog (google sundogs to see what they're like) except that sundogs only appear near the sun, this thing we saw was almost but not quite opposite it. I can only think that it is obviously the sun reflecting off an object, but what? I don' think a plane, as no noise and also it is round, not oblong like a plane would be and it's too big and low to be a commercial plane (without us hearing it!). Any ideas??!
2007-02-21 22:49:11 · 13 answers · asked by Just_wondering 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Aye, google sundogs! heh heh! yahoo'll be hating that one!
2007-02-21 22:58:48 · update #1
No ideas, but its funny how you mentioned "google sundogs to see what they're like" while on yahoo!
2007-02-21 22:54:03 · answer #1 · answered by nikker1985 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what you saw was a sundog indead.
the way it goes is like this.
Sundogs are visible when the sun is near the horizon.
Sunlight passes through the ice crystals.
it is bent by 22 degrees before reaching our eyes. this bending of the light results in the formation of a sundog.
2007-02-22 02:15:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually, i could advise it became Venus. yet, while you're specific that the sunlight became at the back of you once you took the image it can not be that. it may desire to have been a airplane a lengthy way away, nonetheless, on a direction going away or in the direction of you. at times you do no longer pay attention them. by using the way, what's a sundog?
2016-12-18 08:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is quite easily explained. it is either one of two things up to you to decide
one: an explosion of som osrt would have created enough energy to create such a scene
two: the moisture in the air has the habit of bending light so the origin of the light and where the light ends up is two different places so you have just seen a sun dog that has been refracted
danny
2007-02-21 23:17:49 · answer #4 · answered by danny s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
oh my god!
are you sure it was on the 18th?
this day as been foretold for many centuries.
"The Sun shall be mirrored by the unknown,
the far reaches of light shall be purged
and all who urvive will be subjected to unbearavle torture and pain."
i only hope it isnt today.
2007-02-22 02:11:11 · answer #5 · answered by rheat.beserker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its better if you could put the image on the web so we could see it ourselves. Its hard to picture with just word descriptions. It could just be a cloud with the sunrays towards it.
2007-02-21 23:01:44 · answer #6 · answered by dendroidsoldier15 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be nice to see the pic. What's the point of taking a pic if you can't show it to anybody.
2007-02-21 23:29:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was probably this ... a Russian booster exploded and was visible from down under ...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
2007-02-22 01:04:41 · answer #8 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd love to see it too. Do you have a way to post it online so you don't have to e-mail all of us?
2007-02-21 23:37:33 · answer #9 · answered by blahblah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you send me the pic plz? ssilvio@maltanet.net
I might know what it is coz im into such staff.
2007-02-21 23:22:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋