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Old 14-09-2008, 07:42 PM
Jim Ford Jim Ford is offline
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Re: Sun dog?
This is an excellent site that describes all sort of atmospheric optical phenomena, including sundogs/parhelia:

Atmospheric Optics

There's a particularly nice example here:

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm

Jim
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