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Old 04-01-2004, 04:26 PM   #6
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Originally posted by jaguar
aka very shitty jpeg artifacting on that second pic.
Nope. It's the real deal -- backscattered light off of fog. The guy's image in the center is similar to anticrepuscular rays, tracing back from the source of light.

Google search for "Specter of the Brocken" to get a zillion other pics.

UT's pic really is a circumhorizontal arc.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.


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