It's been two years since I first saw one (and wrote about it), and I've seen dozens since.
But I still haven't managed to get a good photo of one.
I see them more often in winter, especially when driving south late in the afternoon. (AL-75S gives great sundog.)
No use trying to race them home, though. They're slithery, and don't hang around for portraits.
Here's a nice, simple page with a good sundog photo, as well as other atmospheric phenomena. Here is the definitive page on the science behind the "why" of all the optics.
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The latest I and the Bird is up over at The Birder's Report. Go see!
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Thanks for the links -- I hadn't heard of most of those optical effects. On the lookout for a fogbow....
Cool, those are real, always thought it was a side effect of something I drank! LOL
Just kidding great info!
Craig
What a great link. I see crepuscular rays quite often on the bay. I had no idea there was a name for it. Great sundog photo.
I shall be picturing slithery sundogs in my mind today.
so excited when I see one here, too.
I think I probably saw sun dogs all of the time but never really thought much about them until I learned they had a name. And I think the first time I heard the term was on an old episode of Star Trek. I watched for the green flash when I was in the Caribbean some years ago but was disappointed.
The best sundog I never saw was just north of Huntsville, Al. My parents saw it in NW Georgia and told me about it. At the time I was under the little trailer I lived in, winterizing it.
Pablo, I saw the green flash in Hawaii. I have looked many times since but never again.
I just learned what the Sundog term was a few months ago! Bravo for sure!
Love the term! Your photos are beautiful....gail
very strange, I came to your page today to look up the atmospheric optics stuff because I remembered that you had posted about them a long time ago, and wanted to see if you still had the link on your sidebar.
I took a picture of one of my hens earlier today...she had an interesting looking "optic" near her feet ;-)
OH- thanks for the link!
Sundogs are part of our weather lore here in southern Saskatchewan. We usually see them in the late afternoon on a still winter day. They are on each side of the sun. To us they signify that tomorrow will be bitterly COLD--somewhere less than -30'C.
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