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Ring Around The Sun
updated: Jul 18, 2012, 3:23 PM
By Edhat Subscriber
A ring around the sun. It's not the easiest thing to take a picture of the sun with a regular camera.
Tends to over-expose a bit. And when you have a 300 mm lens instead of, say, a 55mm lens, it's even
harder because you get a much smaller field of view. But I was determined to get a picture of this
morning's ring with something in the field to compare it to. So, I did.
The ring around the sun is caused by light refracting through millions of tiny crystals in cirrus clouds
miles up in the sky. Sometimes, it's thought to forecast rain. Since we might have thunderstorms this
afternoon, the ring's forecast today may be correct. It's a circular rainbow, of sorts, but it's hard to pick
out the colors since, unlike with a rainbow, to see a ring you must look pretty much directly at the sun
(to see a rainbow, you turn your back to the sun). I had to look at the sun a lot to get these pictures. I
think my blindness is probably only temporary.
Anyway, when I got back, I was disappointed to see all I had were big blobs of white; until I lowered the
exposure and increased the color saturation. Then, the pictures below popped out.
Pretty sight, and it doesn't hurt to look at them.
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