Castlerigg Stone Circle - Strange Phenomenon

[Steve Randles]

This is not something that happened in camera or in subsequent post processing, I saw this and deliberately photographed it...admittedly badly.

 

The day was misty with huge banks of it difting all over the lake district early morning, I walked away from the circle to get a shot of the complete thing and saw this, what looks like an aura.

 

Has anyone any idea or explanation of what it is or is it just too many Druids clanking their crstals?

 

 

Steve...

[MrWiggly]

Hi Steve ..

 

I took a photo of a "Lunar Halo" some time ago. Apparently that was caused by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. I can't see this being the cause here .. unless it was a freezing day !!

 

Mirage ?? Rainbow ??

 

Very strange ..

 

Wiggly.

Edited September 6, 2007 by MrWiggly

[starlight]

makes you wonder if thats why they put the stones there in the first place, or is the aura caused by the magical properties of the stone? what ever, fabulous pic steve! there will be plenty of people very interested in it

[Andrew]

Its the ancients letting you/us know they are still there !!!!!!!

Very strange

[MrWiggly]

Just thought of something else ..

 

Possibly the collected heat off the stones(Thermal Uplift) is pushing the cold mist layer into that formation.

 

Edited September 6, 2007 by MrWiggly

[starlight]

Just thought of something else ..

 

Possibly the collected heat off the stones(Thermal Uplift) is pushing the cold mist layer into that formation.

 

would it do it an arc like that if so?

[morue]

This is not something that happened in camera or in subsequent post processing, I saw this and deliberately photographed it...admittedly badly.

 

The day was misty with huge banks of it difting all over the lake district early morning, I walked away from the circle to get a shot of the complete thing and saw this, what looks like an aura.

 

Has anyone any idea or explanation of what it is or is it just too many Druids clanking their crstals?

 

 

Steve...

Steve, check out this link, http://www.philiplaven.com/p2b.html

perhaps a fog bow

den.

[corydoras]

It looks like fog to me. You were stood with your back to the sun when you took this?

[Ken L]

Yeh, looks like a refraction effect like a rainbow but in mist. For it to work on a scale that would fit in the photo, I'd expect the sun to be behind the camera and up about 45 degrees.