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- MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -13/+83HERE is another example
http://img.search.com/thumb/7/72/SW_binary_sunset.png/350px-SW_binary_sunset.png - Paktu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+54This isn't limited to Malaysia. On very very cold clear days here in Minnesota we get these too. I guess it's caused by sunlight reflecting off ice crystals in the air.
- SeaMowse, on 10/10/2007, -1/+37We have sundogs here in the United States, too. Although I've never seen one that looks like that - amazing! The sundogs I've seen make it seem as though we have 3 suns in the sky (they're not a common occurrence, but not that rare either).
- LordofChaosIori, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27Like so?:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/Sundogs_-_New_Ulm.JPG/800px-Sundogs_-_New_Ulm.JPG - XxFinalexX, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24Now all I need to see is the elusive mooncat.
- toshirosan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24It's not a sundog. More like a 22ยบ radius halos around a high sun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%C2%B0_halo
This optical phenomenon usually happens when the sky is covered by thin cirrus clouds containing ice crystals, and it is unusual to see a clear and strong visible halo around a dimmed sun like this. This is probably due to the thick haze originating from forest fires (not accidental, they always burn their forest or farmland for agricultural purposes during dry monsoon beginning June) in Sumatra, Indonesia that reduces the glare from the sun and enhances the phenomenon. - omnithought, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22A sky boob!
- Andrej73, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Is more like Fogbow
see this:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/bows.htm
Sun dog is completely different story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog - rejoined, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20That's a Tatooine dog.
- Dakart, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Captain Obvious to the rescue!!!
- facelesscoward, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Looks like a circular rainbow.
Poor, poor leprechaun. - Dakart, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You're thinking lens flare... Different things, but surprisingly very similar in creation.
A lens flare is caused by refraction due to the lens, while a sun dog is caused by refraction due to ice crystals/water vapor in the atmosphere. Think of the ice crystal filled clouds as a HUGE lens.
PS: Sun dogs are visible with a naked eye. - Tobark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5" Rare Malaysian phenomeon" -- No its not. Thats for the sensationalist headline.
- kcreekmore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5at "my high school"... starts with "m" :-)
- kaffein, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It's actually called an Icebow. If it had arcs, those would be called dogbows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebow
I took a photo one one in Galveston, Texas not too long ago, on a very humid and hazy day:
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q81/shuutobi/06-20-07_1317.jpg - Dumbledorito, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I thought they were black dogs that came and killed you if you took too many pictures with a haunted camera.
/Stephen King - RogerStrong, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5They're not too unusual in Canada, too.
- techmoney, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Is this why solar deities are often depicted with a halo shining behind their head? Jesus never went anywhere without his.
- zolaar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Ahh, *now* we're getting somewhere!
- rejoined, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Why it's called Sundog? Why not Suncat?
- SPARTACVS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4In Jasper, Alberta, Canada, I've seen 3 of those big, full circle rainbow "sundogs" all intersecting each other straight up in the sky before.
- praveenmarkandu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5lol. i live in malaysia and i havent seen one of those. shows you how much time i spend on digg
- mos6507, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4It's the atmospheric equivalent of a lens flare.
- OGTL, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Yeah, these happen in Canada also. I saw my one and only sun dog this winter, on a nice march day. beautiful sight.
- codmate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Innacurate:
Sun dogs appear everywhere the sun does.
Ever seen a moondog or a moonbow? - TheHapacalypse, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Ow, I'm blind!
- transcendz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3There are some beautiful sun dogs in Scotland, too. I've seen some really nice ones over Edimburgh. The picture shown here isn't a sun dog, rather an ice bow.
- Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6Why not sunboob?
- TheGuruStud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1LAME AS *****. I see several a year in Missouri. I'm tired of these "rare photos" or"events" that I see dozens of a year. Douche bag nerds. Get the ***** out of the basement and maybe you'll see one of these so called rare sights. Oh, BTW, get laid too. Noobs.
- fatlip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the rainbow apocalypse? i'm eagerly awaiting such an event
- crackintosh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Seen from above the clouds it is an "anthelion" or "glory" .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_%28optical_phenomenon%29 - AltEfFour, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oh *****, it's a hole in the ozone!
- scorpionmintred, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1a) This is a beautiful phenomenon, _not_ a beautiful picture. A drugstore camera and burnt retinas a beautiful picture does not make.
b) This is not exotic. I've seen this in New Jersey. (I don't live there, but I've been there. This is for various good reasons).
c) According to all these comments, it's not even called a sundog. I'll go along with that.
Buried as inaccurate / as waste of bandwidth. - phlyblnt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That isn't a sun dog, it's a halo caused by vapor in the air. A sun dog is a bunch of ice crystals frozen high in the atmosphere, and never appears as a halo, more like a clump of shiny stuff off to the side of the sun.
- DubbedOver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Syracuse, NY had saw one about a month or so ago. I took some pictures with my cell phone. I just threw them on a photobucket account if anyone wants to look:
http://s180.photobucket.com/albums/x13/bobhope83/
To see it in person was amazing though, it's HUGE and a ring around the sun is so SCIFI :) - rowlodge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1or the first round of thermonuclear airstrikes by the soviet union caught on camera.
- themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I see them all the time. I think they poster just tried to make the article sound rare an exotic.
- Qeveren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This site explains most of these phenomena: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/
- RapidEye, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Pretty, but burried for being inaccurate - this isn't a sundog.
- CiXeL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i saw something a few weeks ago down here in miami as i was driving to work. off to the left over the everglades there was a really strange rainbow. it was mostly blue and purple. the other bands of color were there very faintly but mostly blue and purple were overpowering the other colors.
- zolaar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Eye of Sauron -- duck, *****!
- rizla420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It looks like a big iris. I think God is just taking a peek at what all the ruckus is and debating whether to send back Jesus. "Hey JC my boy, papa's got a job for you to do... again". "aww do I have to??" - Jesus.
- Xinareiaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Seen them in Idaho, here's a pic of the one I saw http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v721/Xg-manX/?action=view¤t=DSCN5026.jpg it was a full circle in the sky but I couldn't get a wide enough angle to get the whole thing
- rowlodge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1like the last thing you'll see when a thermonuclear bomb goes off over your city.
- SebG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have seen one in US, Spruce Run Lake in NJ to be exact. We where looking and didn't know wtf it was
- Username222, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Here is the entire article.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=473524&in_page_id=1965 - donsherio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1hmm.... To digg because its an awesome picture, or to bury as innacurate because it says a rare Malaysian phenomenon when it can clearly happen anywhere in the world with the right conditions. I live in saskatchewan and we get SunDogs all the time..
It might be that its RARE in Malaysia to get sun dogs...but the phenomenon isnt rare. - cozb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1who ever wrote the title has a very limit view of the world, the phenomeon is not limited to Malaysa
- CiXeL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1strangely enough we get sundogs here in miami too. ive seen them plenty of times around sunset commuting home. i believe it was a winter phenomenon though but i cant be sure.
- imabot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1it was in Langkawi I think..so, yea..
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