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Several halo forms

17.3.2023 at 12.41 - 12.43 - Saarijärvi (II)
Maritta Kinnunen

Well now, finally :D I've been trying to see the side sun. It's just never been seen. Here, others say they see it almost every day :D I've been thinking that I'm really unlucky not to see such a common halo. Now I saw it. It shone with a beautiful color and brightness. The phone does not make the colors appear as bright as the eyes could see. I'm so glad to see it now :)

Images: 3 pcs • Comments: 2 pcs

Rare halos

17.3.2023 at 08.44 - 10.35 - Saarijärvi (IV)
Maritta Kinnunen

What a beautiful halo ring when there were suitable clouds :) I guess there's nothing more to it than that. In the last picture, it looks like the sun has a smaller ring/ring. It's not colorful. It came with other ones taken at the same time. Unless there is a reflection.

Images: 4 pcs • Comments: 6 pcs

Quiet aurora band

15.3.2023 at 23.50 - Saarijärvi (II)
Maritta Kinnunen

I had to spend the whole evening looking to see if I could see it. Well no. A cloud of fog was constantly pushing in from the north, from which snow was being thrown. Sometimes a small bright moment and again from the beginning. Finally, a clearer tovi and the aurora borealis came to that point. There was a rush to get out. I thought that not a single picture would be successful when I immediately got snowflakes on my face :D The green lights were sometimes very bright. It was difficult to get a picture because part of it came right on top and the whole view was quite wide. You won't get g...

Images: 6 pcs

Several halo forms

13.3.2023 at 16.38 - 16.56 - Kannonkoski (II)
Maritta Kinnunen

A different halo ring image in between, streaked with clouds. I'll put the last picture at the beginning. I'm trying to hunt for side sun, but it's just never appeared on my tires. Could there be a little pillar? Continuing the journey, a longer version of the pillar could be seen from behind the forest.

Images: 3 pcs

Iridescent clouds

12.3.2023 at 13.33 - Saarijärvi (III)
Maritta Kinnunen

Color clouds. It looks like the color is flowing in a cloud from one opening to another. I don't know which way :D

Several halo forms

12.3.2023 at 09.30 - 12.44 - Saarijärvi (II)
Maritta Kinnunen

The halo ring was visible again. Probably almost in all of Finland :) So nothing special. One view is a bit boring. Around 10 o'clock another "tire bump" appeared on the right side of the tire. Could it be a cloud that reflects the right tire. It's a shame when you can't get an accurate picture on the phone. I put the pictures in the wrong order. So that a little better comes first :D

Images: 4 pcs • Comments: 2 pcs

One halo form

11.3.2023 at 11.51 - Saarijärvi (I)
Maritta Kinnunen

I'll post a series of pictures from yesterday. A halo ring can be seen in the background. I happened to make shadows on it while leaving the plane. They can't be seen badly. I got confirmation from people who know the matter better :)

Images: 4 pcs

Several halo forms

11.3.2023 at 09.06 - Saarijärvi (II)
Maritta Kinnunen

Hello again in the morning. I put it there just in case several are visible. I'm still really bad at identifying them. It still has a ring :)

Images: 2 pcs

One halo form

11.3.2023 at 01.17 - Saarijärvi (I)
Maritta Kinnunen

Even these halos are coming now. The ring of the moon started to appear first from the left side and was already better exposed at the time of these pictures. In the end it was clearer on the right side. The view was almost artistic due to the position of the clouds.

Images: 2 pcs

One halo form

10.3.2023 at 17.41 - Saarijärvi (I)
Maritta Kinnunen

After a beautiful day, the sunset was also wonderful. 1. There is probably a pillar in the picture. 2. Picture anyway. The sun bridge can be seen hanging there. It looks terribly dark in the pictures. I don't know what is shown in the 3rd and 4th pictures. The sun went down behind the cloud. My eyes could see a small moment where nothing else could be seen in that direction. Until suddenly a glow rose from there. It looked like three yellow-orange rays were on fire. I tried to take a picture, but in the pictures it looks somehow round like the sun itself:D even though it was behind a golde...

Images: 5 pcs

Iridescent clouds

10.3.2023 at 12.05 - 13.42 - Saarijärvi (IV)
Maritta Kinnunen

Today there were wonderful clouds moving and you could see a lot of colored cloud edges and also the rim many times. At times there was a lot of cloudiness, but the sky cleared up quickly. The clouds were going fast :D

Images: 3 pcs

Other special clouds

10.3.2023 at 09.16 - 09.19 - Saarijärvi (I)
Maritta Kinnunen

I've been wondering if I even dare to post this stupid thing here :D 10.3 was a windy day and the clouds were moving a lot and at high speed. There were only a few clouds at the time of these pictures. I had planned to take pictures of the color clouds. Then I noticed a weird looking cloud. I thought I'd wait until it got close to the sun so I could get a great shot. After all, it didn't stay together, but also experienced a change in shape. The sun was already too bright for the photo to have been successful. In the second picture you can see a "face" cloud at the top :D as in my ...

Images: 7 pcs • Comments: 1 pcs

One halo form

8.3.2023 at 11.20 - 13.25 - Saarijärvi (I)
Maritta Kinnunen

I had to photograph the entire tire :D I rarely see it myself and it remained visible for several hours now. EDIT: Thanks. Thank you also for the interesting instructions to get to know and learn about the phenomena of the sky :)

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 5 pcs

Several bright halo forms

8.3.2023 at 08.46 - Saarijärvi (III)
Maritta Kinnunen

Now there were several phenomena at the same time. Ring, arch and color cloud/rim. It looked good and stayed put :)

Images: 4 pcs

One halo form

6.3.2023 at 16.53 - Saarijärvi
Maritta Kinnunen

During the shopping trip, it was noticed that the sun was glowing orange and a pillar was rising. There was no such view at the shooting location. However, many things could be seen due to the movement of the clouds and there was something floating in the air. I'm not sure if the pillars of either were visible in the pictures. A cloud started to appear in front of the sun and we started to continue our journey. Should have been a little longer. Yes, it was a shame to notice first in the side mirror and later when the trees were rustling the rather red sun with its pillars. Couldn't tak...

Images: 5 pcs • Comments: 2 pcs

Iridescent clouds

4.3.2023 at 09.20 - Saarijärvi (III)
Maritta Kinnunen

There are no particularly beautiful color clouds here. It's a funny coincidence that the only bright spot in the sky looks like a hole there :D the sun colored the border on the left side of it.

Images: 2 pcs

Lunar corona

4.3.2023 at 00.30 - Saarijärvi (IV)
Maritta Kinnunen

I followed the cloudiness and the possibility of seeing the northern lights. The cloudiness changed quickly. It was kind of foggy in the early evening. There was nothing to photograph there, besides the moon. Sometimes not even that. From the beginning of the evening, all the pictures of the moon's faint ring and glow seemed somehow stretched. All evening, whenever the moon could be seen, it circled around it. The color just changed.

Images: 2 pcs

Quiet aurora arc

2.3.2023 at 23.36 - Saarijärvi (II)
Maritta Kinnunen

It's been a special week with the aurora borealis and the planets. The surprise aurora borealis appeared out of nowhere. I watched how the clouds parted. After a couple of minutes, the green lights were really visible. Maybe the humidity in the air made the color like that. I do not know. I managed to take a few pictures. It quickly passed. After a while it seemed that they would come again. I managed to get out and only got a bad picture :) Now in hindsight I noticed that later in the night the wonderful lights might have been visible.

Images: 2 pcs

Conjuction of celestial bodies

2.3.2023 at 18.39 - 18.59 - Saarijärvi (IV)
Maritta Kinnunen

The meeting between Venus and Jupiter looked different compared to yesterday. So are the colors of the sky.

Images: 2 pcs

Venus and Jupiter

1.3.2023 at 18.44 - Saarijärvi (III)
Maritta Kinnunen

Venus and Jupiter. You had to try to photograph them, even if you can't get accurate pictures with a phone. The meeting looks different than a few nights ago :) The first picture taken at 18:44, the second one in a different place 10 min. later.

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 4 pcs

Search result contains observations from time period 1.1.2000 klo 00.00 - 24.3.2023 klo 7.51.