From: Eric Weir
On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
The image looks very much like/identical to a phenomenon I've
experienced before in extremely cold weather. Looks exactly what
shows in your images: a ring around the sun with two large
bright spots at the circumference aligned with the sun.
With Wikipedia's help I was able to remember what it's called: Sun
Dog. That is, if it's not dust. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog
Technically, Sun Dogs are caused by "dust" - water vapor coalesced
around dust motes and froze creating thousands of millions of of
billions of teeny-tiny prisms floating in the air. They're not on the
sensor.
I think the spots Collin is concerned with actually are on the sensor.
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