Ian and Chris,
The multi-color halo was almost certainly a glory, caused by light
backscattered off the water droplets in the cloud.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
The orange glow sounds like it may be some sort of light pillar,
caused by light reflecting either off the water droplets in the same
cloud as the glory or by ice crystals in between the two cloud layers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar
These displays are fun to see, and it sounds as if you got to see a
particularly spectacular one.
Mark
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good to hear from you, Ian.
>
> The multi-colour halo was probably the result of the sunlight through the
> windows. I've seen this quite often in the (smaller) aircraft that I've
> flown.
>
> And of course I have never had a camera with me at the time.
>
> Chris
>
> On 18 Dec 2010, at 04:39, |-o-| wrote:
>
>> I took a full complement of E series stuff over to Perth (Western Australia)
>> with me this trip, the E1 and everything that fits it.
>>
>> Last night our flight back to Melbourne From Perth was delayed about
>> 75 minutes but once we were up about 20 minutes into the flight we
>> were cruising between two layers of cloud, just above the bottom layer.
>> The sinking sun was visible though the cabin window on the other
>> side (right) of the jet to us. And on our side of the jet we say a stunning
>> sharp shadow of the Airbus A320 on the lower cloud's pillows with a
>> spectacular multicolor halo around the shadow on the cloud, it also
>> had a three part orange radiating glow upwards centered on the jet
>> shadow which went on for 1-2 minutes.
>>
>> My wife commented that it looks to much like a religious omen, should
>> we worry ?
>
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