Author Topic: Light Pillars -- Explanation?  (Read 1782 times)

armando_m

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Re: Light Pillars -- Explanation?
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2017, 03:16:19 »
Beautiful optical effects , thanks for sharing your images

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Ron Scubadiver

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Re: Light Pillars -- Explanation?
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2017, 05:34:55 »
UFO's, report to area 51...  Lots of nice pics...

Asle F

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Re: Light Pillars -- Explanation?
« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2017, 16:29:32 »
I think this site is explaning it, and other haloes well. http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/platpill.htm
There is no illusion, it just looks that way.

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Re: Light Pillars -- Explanation?
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2017, 18:12:58 »
Anirban: lovely city scape!

All others: Very interesting phenomena and documentation. Thank you for sharing!
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Re: Light Pillars -- Explanation?
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2017, 16:48:56 »
Some great pictures of wonderful events here, and some great info too! Learnt a lot here.

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Re: Light Pillars -- Explanation?
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2017, 17:45:36 »
Amazing images, guys!  Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Light Pillars -- Explanation?
« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2017, 19:17:26 »
Shot early last week. Minneapolis, cold evening, "Light pillar" right before sunset. Handheld, no time to setup tripod.  :D



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