Unfortunately these are not as rare as they used to be with all the added jet pollution making cirrus clouds but still not something you see everyday. Only the Sun Dog to the right of the sun was evident

I was able to capture another sundog, that makes it two days in a row! The camera I was using didn't allow me to get the whole thing in one shot, zoomed in too far! Well either way, I thought I would share

Let's start with...what is it? According to A sundog is a concentrated patch of sunlight occasionally seen about 22° to the left or right of the Sun. Sundogs often form in pairs on either side of our daytime

Image Source     Bright sundog in Fargo, North Dakota In meteorology, a sundog or mock sun is officially called a parhelion. It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that is caused by

In the last post ( we saw how a 22 degree solar halo was created from hexagonal column crystals of ice. These crystals take all different orientations in the sky and thus give rise to the light that reaches

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A Sundog is a circle rainbow from refracted light around the sun. Created with Steepshot View in the web app

Its not very often you get to capture the stunning beauty of a very promonent sundog. Luckly my phone was charged enough to capture a few pics before the sun set for the day

While wandering near Julian Lake, just north of Burleigh Falls, Ontario I noticed a very faint sundog in the sky. Without a decent camera, I took this photo through my sun glasses. Behold, a secret sundog

A calm Friday evening in June over Stavanger/Sandnes Sundogs, sometimes called Sun Dogs, Parhelia or Mock Suns, are with the 22º halo, the most frequent of the ice halos. They are most easily seen when

Captured this on my phone whilst driving in NW London. I couldn't comprehend what I was seeing but upon research I have come across many posts via YouTube that this anomaly is called a Sun dog. You can