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Post by theshee on Jan 13, 2017 8:46:35 GMT 10
 Despite appearances, aliens have not descended upon a snowy scape in Ontario, Canada. Rather, an Earthly phenomenon is the cause of a ring of brilliant shafts of pastel-colored lights, captured in the wee hours of the morning by Timmy Joe Elzinga using his smartphone camera. It was 1:30 a.m. local time in northern Ontario on Jan. 6 when Elzinga spotted the phenomenon. "When I first saw these light beams shooting through the sky from my bathroom window, I was sure they were the northern lights," Elzinga told Live Science in an email. "I was able to capture these images both because the lights were so bright and pronounced and because I'm a bit of an amateur photographer." That experience, he said, led him to use "the manual settings on my phone to adjust the time the aperture was open to 8 seconds." Ice from high altitudes explains the pillars that Elzinga saw, NASA said. During some cold, wintry nights, flat ice crystals that normally reside higher up in the atmosphere come fluttering closer to the ground, according to NASA. These whimsically wobbling ice crystals are sometimes referred to as crystal fog. When the crystals reflect ground lights from nearby cars and other bits of civilization, the result can be glorious: columns of light called "light pillars." "The pillars are not physically over the lights or anywhere else in space for that matter — like all halos, they are purely the collected light beams from all the millions of crystals, which just happen to be reflecting light towards your eyes or camera," said Les Cowley, a retired physicist and atmospheric optics expert, on his site Atmospheric Optics. The light pillars are so strange-looking that people often mistake them for UFOs, according to EarthSky.org. "There are said to be a lot of UFO reports caused by light pillars over Niagara Falls, where the mist from the rush of descending water interacts with the city's many upward-facing spotlights," EarthSky reported. link |
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Post by shaggietrip on Jan 13, 2017 9:39:17 GMT 10
Kick ass image. Nice post. What interests me is why the pillars? Another elusive explanation from NASA. So they gather in one spot then fall to Earth which allows the light to travel down these miraculous pillars of collectives/crystals. Hmm ok. Yet I feel there is more to it.  If NASA says it's CRYSTAL FOG..Then who am i to argue lol  ..ps...you may need to change your righting color up a few tones as black on dark blue is a wee bit too dark to see...i will give you an instand fix lol He said...Kick ass image. Nice post. What interests me is why the pillars? Another elusive explanation from NASA. So they gather in one spot then fall to Earth which allows the light to travel down these miraculous pillars of collectives/crystals. Hmm ok. Yet I feel there is more to it.
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Post by brillbilly on Jan 13, 2017 9:44:04 GMT 10
Truly Beautiful shee...I would love to see something like this!...Wow!  |
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Post by toxic32 on Jan 13, 2017 10:26:08 GMT 10
Strange how the lights are more intense at the bottom of the beam don't you think? If the light was originating in the upper atmosphere you would expect the light to be more intense nearer to the source? Because light diffuses and spreads out the further it travels. Even laser beams spread the further they travel.
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Post by Wes Gear on Jan 13, 2017 15:34:42 GMT 10
The crystals are in the Sky but the Light source is from the ground.
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Post by Mad Scientist on Jan 13, 2017 18:00:04 GMT 10
About 5/6 years ago I had a couple of dreams in sequence, Earth was attacked and bombarded by burning crystals in the shapes of rods. Those dreams were very intense and very sci-fi like, loved them. Anyway, those crystals did raise questions I have never been able to answer.  |
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Post by brillbilly on Jan 13, 2017 23:59:46 GMT 10
I'm still trying to work out what that bright white light is bottom left?..Along with those beautiful beams! |
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Post by Mad Scientist on Jan 14, 2017 14:28:03 GMT 10
I'm still trying to work out what that bright white light is bottom left?..Along with those beautiful beams! Yeah, that pic is amazing really. I figured that light source to be the Sun, one of those no sundown places. |
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Post by theshee on Jan 24, 2017 10:33:07 GMT 10
..ps...you may need to change your righting color up a few tones as black on dark blue is a wee bit too dark to see...i will give you an instand fix lol
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Post by shaggietrip on Jan 24, 2017 10:38:53 GMT 10
..ps...you may need to change your righting color up a few tones as black on dark blue is a wee bit too dark to see...i will give you an instand fix lol
TY, I have played with colors. found few that will work. I appreciate your help on this as far as read. If you use all the time them plz continue. Edit: Keeping to topic. yes i must have miss read some items. Also thinking may be some good images in near future as atmospheric changes happen. It is a beautiful image for sure. |
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Hmm ok. Yet I feel there is more to it. 
..ps...you may need to change your righting color up a few tones as black on dark blue is a wee bit too dark to see...i will give you an instand fix lol
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