Sun dogs usually involve frozen water crystals that are airborne. I’ve only seen them in cooler places but to be fair I live is a cooler place so maybe I’m wrong.
You’re only a little wrong. Sundogs are one kind of ice crystal halos, but they’re atmospheric and can be visible anywhere in any season. But they’re more often just not visible.
Never heard of or seen such a thing but the Wikipedia description of the phenomenon sounds like it is straight out of Men in Black after they hit them with the flashy thing
Looks like a reflection of some sort - as if the picture is taken through a window and this is a reflection of something behind the person taking the photo.
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Nice, I'll check them out. Heard a lot about them but I'm terrible with recognizing bands. One of my regulars at the bar loves Rush, says they have the best drummer ever. Thanks!
A light pillar is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source. Light pillars can be caused by the Moon or terrestrial sources, such as streetlights and erupting volcanoes.
This absolutely isn't that. Lows temps for Hanoi are in the high 70s right now. Light Pillars happen from frozen water in the atmosphere in the dead of winter.
This phenomenon happens when variations in the Earth’s magnetic field interact with disturbances in the ionosphere, causing refraction and dispersion of light waves, so light passing through this altered atmosphere becomes distorted, creating a mirage like effect that makes it appear as if a bridge is extending into space, and I made all this shit up I have no idea what I’m talking about.
I think what we are seeing is just a shadow that's being cast on the sky from a ground light.
Maybe there's a pole or something that has a floodlight pointed up at it from the ground. But whatever it is it's definitely just a shadow.
Edit: the bottom half of the photo it's clearly visible that there is a bright light source, there's a glow coming from the treeline that fades the higher up the sky you go. The part of the sky that's darker is around the same darkness as the part that is being shadowed out, meaning there's something stopping the light source from reaching that specific part of the sky so it's as dark as the rest of the sky.
These are Lunar light pilars! Moonlight refracting off of ice crystals in the atmosphere! What a treat to see in a pic. I bet it was beautiful in person. Thx for sharing!
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