Sundogs, an often overlooked natural phenomenon (& more pictures)

I am now finished with uploading pictures of the October 2006 contest, featuring many pictures of our new 2m dish for 23cm and 13cm, and some atmospheric night shoots of the full moon over the contest site. But i want to draw your attention to two pictures of a natural phenomenon that is often overlooked, but that we noticed while taking down the equipment on sunday afternoon: Sundogs (Parhelion). I heard of them, but never noticed one before. So this was a nice ending of the contest weekend.

The “additional suns” can be found as bright spots in the clouds, left and right of the man sun (which i tried to hide behind the windmill).
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Other nice pictures:

  • Sunset on sunday evening
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  • Night shots with full moon
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  • Ursa Maior over our generator trailer
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  • The shack caravan
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  • Windmill park
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