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"
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.
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
