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greattornick2says...looks like an optical effect of some sort to me...
Jinxsays...Isn't everything we see an optical effect?
Did a bit of googling. Apparently they are called Leaping Sundogs, or Crown Flash.
"The answer lies in this: ice crystals, especially long needles, tend to become aligned with the ambient electric field.
So what you are seeing is sunlight reflecting off ice crystal faces that are constantly being oriented by the developing electric field just above the [cumulonimbus] top. Then there is a discharge in the cloud, and the field collapses momentarily, and the crystals begin to realign again. Then this just keeps happening over and over."
My guess was so wrong, and so much more boring too
looks like an optical effect of some sort to me...
speechlesssays...It's the projected "sky" ceiling at Caesars Palace in Vegas.
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