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Old 09-16-2002, 09:22 AM   #14
Vegeta
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Re: 9/12/2002: Light pillars

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Originally posted by Undertoad
They happen when the temperature is around freezing. When ice crystals form in the air as a type of light snow, they can flutter and reflect light only at certain angles. The light being reflected here is from an ice-skating complex in Anchorage.
Oooh, does diffraction play a part here? Or do each of those pillars correspond to evenly-spaced lights around the skating complex?

Good ol' college physics class. Bad ol' memory.
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