Thanks, Mark. That makes sense, but I'm sure that I've seen the prism-like
result of the sun through the canopy of a smaller aircraft.
But that explains a few others.
Chris
On 18 Dec 2010, at 15:03, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
> 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.
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