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fire rainbow
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fire rainbow

"a rainbow in the sky"

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Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 04:40AM

This is a real photograph of an atmospheric phenomenon known as a circumhorizon(tal) arc, the example shown above was captured on camera as it hung for about an hour across a several-hundred square mile area of sky above northern Idaho (near the Washington border) on 3 June 2006.

In general, a circumhorizontal arc (or "fire rainbow"winking
smiley appears when the sun is high in the sky (i.e., higher than 58° above the horizon), and its light passes through diaphanous, high-altitude cirrus clouds made up of hexagonal plate crystals. Sunlight entering the crystals' vertical side faces and leaving through their bottom faces is refracted (as through a prism) and separated into an array of visible colors. When the plate crystals in cirrus clouds are aligned optimally (i.e., with their faces parallel to the ground), the resulting display is a brilliant spectrum of colors reminiscent of a rainbow.
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 04:41AM

cool stuff

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Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 04:57AM

=_ WOW _=
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 04:57AM

ok I didn't get the underline
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 04:59AM

FD you must have thousands of pictures..
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:07AM

click on my name on one i loaded.
the ones i choose to load are my very best, i have thousands more. i mostly load the higher res. pics in the collection, but am always looking for more.
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:15AM

_ let me try _
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:16AM

hmmmm.
underscore, space, type, space, underscore works for me. sometimes it works for others with no spaces
pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:21AM

seems like I have been =unsuccesful= when _trying_
to underline and italicize at the same _=time=_...
pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:21AM

= _ cool pic btw _ =
pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:22AM

ahh, the spaces are the = _ key _ =!
pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:23AM

thanky fer the hint fossil...
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:24AM

but * punctuation * + fucks + _ everything _ up
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: August 10, 2006 05:25AM

oops tried to get tricky