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I think it is just a leaf from a tree, or a piece of garbage (plastic). Not very far away.
That's probably why you didn't notice it at the moment you took the photo.
It looks like a 100% crop from the original image, so that could be why there's no lens blur, together with tight lens aperture.

Very nice to see sprites in color! How close is this to true colors?

In my enthusiasm I did some hotpixel removal using the "dust & scratches" removal filter in Photoshop. Where the sprites are I left the original image. Of course real stars are gone now too, but it gives a nice impression ...

@RainerKracht: If you ask me, those are normal Cirrus clouds. Maybe from airplanes.

Wow, that's really inspiring...!

I've searched and here's a better quality quicktime version from this article::
http://quicktime.oit.duke.edu/news/sprites.mp4 (hm, direct link doesn't seem to work)

And this image from Steven's homepage shows nicely how BIG those sprites are...
http://www.ee.duke ...

Check this:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/i ... ageID=1601

k.wolfram hat geschrieben:Hallo Michiel,
um es deutlich zu machen: das Foto ist nicht per Bildbearbeitung editiert, sondern im Original so entstanden mit normaler Kameraeinstellung!
Gruß K.Wolfram

Hm, eh.. well, than it's a camera bug

Or what DennisP writes.. I don't know

This could happen when a color scheme is mixed up by another one.

Did you change the computer's color settings while editing?

Thanks / Danke

I've made a crappy movie back in 1999 of exactly what Peter Kramer writes but WITH rainbow :wink: and it was evening. (I only have some screenshots).

It was one of the most spectacular things I've seen by the way.

http://www.mdbsite.com/zgadoe/oranjefilm1.jpg

http://www.mdbsite.com/zgadoe ...

Boa,Werner das ist wieder mal ein Knallerbild !

Wirklich interessant was über diesen Morgen so zusammenkommt,in einem anderen Thread hat auch jemand noch davon berichtet.

Was ich noch hinzuzufügen hätte,ist dass das rosa Leuchten irgendwann am unteren Horizont langsam ins Orange überging,bis dann ...

Hi

Also keine Bildausbeute,aber ich hab mich mal drangesetzt und ein Bild zusammengebastelt was diesen Anblick farblich ungefähr widergibt

He writes that he was not able to make pictures and so he fiddles one, which looks just like the real view. So it is not a foto!

André


Oops sorry I have ...

I think it is indeed the very low sun that was shining on the cloud or rain which diffuses the red light. It looks pink, because the sunlight is relatively weak, and in combination with the light from the blue sky above the cloud it becomes pink, like in this example:
http://www.mdbsite.com/skies ...

BrroOaAah... Torsten, Claus, Beautiful!!

First another view from the image of Lars Prignitz (first post in this thread). I almost posted it yesterday. It really looks like NLC, but indeed was suddenly gone..

Photo is enhanced to show details better:.
http://www.mdbsite.com/zgadoe/nlc-2005-06-22a.jpg

Here are NLC's from this morning ...

It could be the (smoke) trail of a meteor.

See this page for photo's of this (scroll down)
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlin ... ov98_1.htm

Alexander Wünsche hat geschrieben:Nur bei der Dichte des Cirrus bin ich nicht ganz einverstanden, da ich auch schon farbige Nebensonnen mit auffälligem Blauanteil bei dichtem Cirrusstratus gesehen habe.

I will pay attention next time I see sundogs :-)

Michiel

...or not?
Agree/disagree with my previous post?

Also NLC in the Netherlands (14-06-2005).
The photo's represent the real colors.
I like the photo's better than what I saw with the naked eye ;-)

01 - 23:17
Before taking this shot I had doubt if it was cirrus or NLC..
http://www.mdbsite.com/zgadoe/nlc1.jpg

02 - 23:43
Blue sky fading away ...

Wow!

..and don't forget to visit the site of the photographer as well....
http://www.mesoscale.ws/
http://www.mesoscale.ws/pictures/tornadic/

amazing!

A very importand aspect of the visible blue is also the height of the sun:
When a sundog is low the blue is filtered anyway.

And... probably, even the thickness of the cirrus is importand for the 'ilussion' of a more blue sundog. With thin cirrus the background is blue, and the 'tail' of the sundog ...