Ever see a "Brocken Spectre" ?
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https://twitter.com/ultrapeakschris/status/1591872052805660672 Examples https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brocken+spectre&t=chromentp&atb=v314-1&ia=web
New to me. It's a shadow cast onto the cloud with a rainbow around it. This was recorded on Red Pike (Wasdale) in the Lake District UK.
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Or more commonly referred to
Or more commonly referred to as "The Jesus Effect Filter"
boy are they going to have fun with this and the Q Trump Christians
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The "spectre" appears when
The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind the observer, who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog. The light projects their shadow through the mist, often in a triangular shape due to perspective.
The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges their shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points by which to judge its size.
The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The "ghost" can appear to move (sometimes suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer and variations in density within the cloud.
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So, like a circular, full
So, like a circular, full-spectrum sundog?