Saturday, April 09, 2005

ask bubba.




while flying his kite on a nice saturday afternoon, my lil' nephew, jeremy, spotted a rainbow around the sun. how pretty...

quick! what's this atmospheric optic called (other than a rainbow around the sun)?

click here for the answer.

7 comments:

parabolicant said...

I thought it was a sundog

bubba said...

i thought it was a sundog as well. apparently, sundogs when present appear as intense concentrations of light to either side of a sun halo (22 degrees in this case).

click here for example pix of sundogs.

or go to

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/dogphots.htm

Anonymous said...

you're pictures are much better than their samples - you should send them in.

Dave

Kyle said...

Yep. I'm with Mike. Thought the same thing...

Ask Bubba, learn from Bubba. Nice.

bubba said...

Dave,

just might send them in. might be the last though 'cause i think i blew a hole in the ccd. ha!

Kyle,

i thought i'd run a website where i just wait for people to ask me questions. while they wait i'd do the research on the internet. dunno how i'd make money on that though. wait a minute... that makes me a librarian... yikes!!!

kelsey said...

What's wrong with being a librarian?

bubba said...

kelsey,

just testing to see if you're still reading the blog. i luv liberrians. you know that.

in fact, i'm about to donate 5 bucks to the cpl 'cause i think i tossed my liberry card out of my pocket while biking yesterday. dunno where it is anymore.