11/24: Sun pillar

jet_silver · 11-24-2001, 10:10 PM

Beautiful, UT.

I thought I'd seen all the cool atmospherics: aurora, green flash, "sun dogs", Brockengespenstphanomen... this is the first I've ever even heard of a 'sun pillar' and it is lovely.

Ice crystals in the sky. You'd see that at high latitudes... like when rounding Cape Horn. And the early mariners who went around there had enough superstition and enough actual miserable situations to make anything new and eerie like this quite frightening. It would make a terrific detail in a Patrick O'Brian book.

11-24-2001, 10:10 PM	#1
jet_silver wazmo medio Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: San Narciso, CA Posts: 53	Beautiful, UT. I thought I'd seen all the cool atmospherics: aurora, green flash, "sun dogs", Brockengespenstphanomen... this is the first I've ever even heard of a 'sun pillar' and it is lovely. Ice crystals in the sky. You'd see that at high latitudes... like when rounding Cape Horn. And the early mariners who went around there had enough superstition and enough actual miserable situations to make anything new and eerie like this quite frightening. It would make a terrific detail in a Patrick O'Brian book. __________________ "De lood van die Goevernement sal nou op julle smelt." -Thomas Pynchon

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