anomoly in the sky (pictures) , natural?

Hi every one,

About one hour ago I was walking trough town and I saw this light in the sky, does any one know what it is?
I took some pics and uploaded them.
The colours of the ligt don't show up very nicely in the photo, when i looked at it with my bare eye's it had pink, blue , orange and bright white colours.

Here are the pics.

Original:

as you can see it doesnt show up really good , probably because of the poor camera (and camera settings) in my cell phone.

So here is the enhanced version:

Any suggestions?

Cheers

S.

[edit on 14-10-2008 by Solidus Green eye]

[edit on 14-10-2008 by Solidus Green eye]

get a better camera, those pics r useless.

reply to post by Solidus Green eye


Those are just the thumbnails.

Could you upload the full size images?

Thats what us weather people call iridescence or irisation.

Happens when clouds with water droplets or ice crystals of the same size diffract sunlight.

Here's a link if you want to know more

www.atoptics.co.uk...

Aah thanx alot, that explains it, that was exactly how it looked

sorry for the wrong size of the photo's btw...something went wrong when i uploaded them

mystery solved !

cheers

S

reply to post by OzWeatherman


THIS is the real strenght of ATS: people like like you, actually trained, actually able to provide an explanation even in a case like this one. This is why i don't think to be a real expert: there are so many things to know, mother nature is able to play so many tricks that i feel to be too small in front of all them Too many things to know.
Thank you for bringing some REALITY to the forum.

As a resident of Seattle I feel that I should weigh in on this one. You see up here in the NW we see this phenomenon all the time. They're called.....CLOUDS.