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A fireball at night, brighter than a full moon

12.9.2022 at 21.43 - Orimattila (III)
Pia Simonen

I had just stepped out the door when a bright object flew closer from the west. It was moving quite slowly, at first I thought it was a very bright satellite, but then burning parts came off. The flight lasted five seconds, then the object turned off and disappeared. For me, the most interesting revelation of its kind. In the attached picture, the flight path of the target is marked in red.

Green rim

11.9.2022 at 20.54 - Orimattila
Pia Simonen

The moon rose handsomely yellow. On the big screen, I noticed that you can hear both the red and the green border there.

Comments: 4 pcs

At least 10 lightning strikes seen

28.8.2022 at 15.15 - 17.00 - Orimattila (IV)
Pia Simonen

Finally, decent thunder for our corners as well. If only it had been night :-) Jytina lasted for a couple of hours without a break, the lightning mostly flashed inside the cloud. It also rained hailstones, they were at most pericentimeters. Behind the link you can find a small summary taken with a phone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryJ1EvO3N8k

Images: 2 pcs

Bright night shining clouds

12.8.2022 at 00.45 - Kitee (IV)
Pia Simonen

Such a great location and a nice catch, two birds with one stone.

Other special clouds

5.6.2022 at 08.13 - Orimattila (IV)
Pia Simonen

Would this be a hole cloud? The direction of the cloud is northeast of Hki-Vantaa, it would match the Kuopio plane that flew earlier. More and more, I have learned even the long holes of the holes to see that this is different when it comes to such a stubborn act.

Images: 5 pcs

Other storm phenomenon

16.5.2022 at 16.16 - Orimattila (III)
Pia Simonen

A great mammoth cloud rolled over the village, but at least it didn’t rain towards it.

Primary rainbow

12.5.2022 at 17.48 - Orimattila (IV)
Pia Simonen

I was already throwing these rainbow pictures in the trash, but I noticed that those inner arches were pretty pretty (I boosted with HDR). So are they intense reference arcs as read under the info button or interference arcs like Google suggests?

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 2 pcs

Bishop's ring

23.3.2022 at 13.38 - Orimattila (II)
Pia Simonen

In the morning the sun was particularly reddish, I thought it was due to ordinary fog. But even though it was cloudless during the day, the sunlight was not bright. Would there be any Bishop-causing particles in the air?

Light pillars

6.12.2021 at 21.47 - Orimattila (II)
Pia Simonen

For several days a good pillar crystal hovered in the air. Now I finally had a good time out with the camera. Yellow lights are reflected from the greenhouse.

Fogbow

14.10.2021 at 09.40 - Orimattila (II)
Pia Simonen

After a frosty night, the sun began to evaporate the frost and raised fog into the air. It created a very vague arc, the shape of which varied greatly with the movements of the fog clouds.

Images: 3 pcs

One halo form

2.9.2021 at 16.56 - Suomussalmi (I)
Pia Simonen

A very bright lonely zyk surprised between small showers.

Comments: 2 pcs

Fogbow

31.8.2021 at 09.29 - Asikkala, Pulkkilanharju (IV)
Pia Simonen

I waited for the fog arc since sunrise, but fell asleep when it was not visible. Otherwise, it was a wonderful morning with fog and swans. I woke up again, peeked out the window and there it was right in front, the best arch at my point. Luckily I was in a hurry, the arc disappeared within minutes of taking the pictures. Edit: Welded, if I had been able to shoot a little higher, I would have included the reflections of the water properly. It would have been a full almond and a circle :-)

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 1 pcs

Mirage

8.6.2021 at 14.50 - Uusikaarlepyy (III)
Pia Simonen

A wonderful warm day in the beautiful small village of Grisselören.

Ground level vortex

8.6.2021 at 13.05 - Härmä (III)
Pia Simonen

A spectacular vortex rose from the newly leveled field. It seemed to fade at the road, but still caused a slight vortex on the other side of the road. Thus, in a video clip, the clips are in the reverse order.

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 4 pcs

Rare halos

3.5.2021 at 08.10 - 08.45 - Orimattila (IV)
Pia Simonen

It's pretty now! That event first appeared to itself at the beginning of 46. All in all a great morning :-) (The camera clock is here in winter time.) Edit: Added pictures. If Kern seems to make the zyk a full circle, then you can't find one in these pictures.

Images: 6 pcs • Comments: 10 pcs

Light pillars

12.4.2021 at 22.10 - 22.35 - Orimattila (II)
Pia Simonen

Directly above, the lights from a nearby greenhouse reflected a pillar of pillar. This is at least what I dare say on the basis of previous similar observations. However, the weather is strangely warm for the pillars at + 8 ° C. A couple of different exposures on the phone, the comma is well visible in both.

Images: 2 pcs

Rare halos

3.3.2021 at 10.30 - Orimattila (IV)
Pia Simonen

The cross-country skier had time to blink into the sky as the skis slid forward as if by themselves. Without sunglasses and relying solely on the phone’s camera, I tried to capture a fast ellipse that looked a little better a couple of times. There would also have been some really cool color clouds on offer, but I didn’t even try to capture them over the phone.

Images: 3 pcs • Comments: 8 pcs

Fogbow

12.2.2021 at 10.10 - Orimattila (II)
Pia Simonen

A dim fog over the back of a car windshield. The window heater is nice by the way, but not very good for shooting :-)

Images: 2 pcs

Light pillars

11.2.2021 at 20.25 - 22.50 - Orimattila (II)
Pia Simonen

Lots of light sticks above the village. A small video of the dance of the pillars can be found at the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOM5G7fjIqE&feature=youtu.be Edit: This later turned into a real light show. The best pillar night for you.

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 1 pcs

One halo form

6.2.2021 at 12.37 - Orimattila (I)
Pia Simonen

Glittering crystals slowly hovered in the air. The lower sun also flickered, but I didn’t get a proper picture of it.

Images: 3 pcs

Search result contains observations from time period 1.1.2000 klo 00.00 - 31.3.2023 klo 13.08.