Why is the sky like this?


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waycool

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Shot this on Labour Day... Does anyone know what caused this?
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UFO coming liao..... come and catch all the piggies away for us... :sticktong
 

cant tell exactly from ur shot, but it might Iridescent clouds..
They are formed from small water droplets of near uniform size. When the sun is properly positioned, mostly behind thick clouds, these thin clouds almost coherently diffract sunlight, and as a rainbow, different wavelengths are diffracted different amounts. Thus the colors hit the observer from different directions.
 

It's the refraction of light against the particles in the clouds and atmosphere.


GMAN
 

:dunno: Lens dirty? :dunno:
 

Shot this on Labour Day... Does anyone know what caused this?
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Ice crystals refracting the sunlight causing something that resembles a "Sundog" depending on the angle viewed.
 

Wah! somebody is watching from above.:embrass:

shamsnap
 

so, sort of like a rainbow?
 

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