Weird eclipse happening right now, Huge ring circling the sun?

I've never seen nothing like this b4, i took some pics with my sony camera but to my surprise seems someone stole my cable to hook it to the pc... >.<
Go look outside now! I recommend you use some good shades, If anyone can take pics that would be awesome!.
@ mods i didnt know where to post this sorry, please move it to the appropiate sub forum if its in the wrong one.

edit due to question.
I live in the Carribean close to Dominican Republic.

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Eclipse isn't supposed to happen til near the end of April.

what is your location OP?

OK...put on my really super duper sunglasses, and took a look. Ga, USA. Nothing out of the ordinary...except now I see spots in my monitor.

Des

Originally posted by Signals
what is your location OP?

I don't know where is the OP, here in NJ sun looks normal thru my window. Seems like a bad joke.

Yeah like...you do realize its not night where all of us are, its not the same time zone, and forever you thread here is going to be telling anyone reading......5 years from now...to "go outside and look..."

We arent where you are now...and still wont be in 5 years...nor its it night right now where I am...so...

At least THINK about threading when you do...after you post anything...its not BREAKING!, IMPORTANT! or HAPPENING NOW!'....because it wont be breaking anymore...we cant go out and look at it...and it will have happened already.....sigh

A thought lasts a second....but your thread....forever....and so in ICELAND....next year some morning...no one will understand what the heck you were going on about...sorry

PS Its also not an ECLIPSE...its a ring...shadow...whatever

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Carribean close to Dominican republic.

reply to post by Arolexion


California here nothing but clouds. You said eclipse but you also said ring circling the sun, is it a sun ring not an eclipse?

Like this?
en.wikipedia.org...(optical_phenomenon)

Originally posted by Arolexion
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Carribean close to Dominican republic.

Have you maybe, been staring at the sun too long?

High altitude, upper air ice crystals will cause the same effect.

ETA: Pic of ice crystals around sun.



Des

Originally posted by mysterioustranger
Yeah like...you do realize its not night where all of us are, its not the same time zone, and forever you thread here is going to be telling anyone reading......5 years from now...to "go outside and look..."

We arent where you are now...and still wont be in 5 years...nor its it night right now where I am...so...

At least THINK about threading when you do...after you post anything...its not BREAKING!, IMPORTANT! or HAPPENING NOW!'....because it wont be breaking anymore...we cant go out and look at it...and it will have happened already.....sigh

A thought lasts a second....but your thread....forever....and so in ICELAND....next year some morning...no one will understand what the heck you were going on about...sorry

PS Its also not an ECLIPSE...its a ring...shadow...whatever

edit on 06-10-2010 by mysterioustranger because: (no reason given)

I have no idea what your issues is, if its night time over there then obviously dont waste your time loooking since your time is OH SO VALUABLE..
In any case yeah it is a huge ring.. sucks i can't really upload the pics i took... >.<

VIdeo

Im guessing its not that rare.. never seen one before though. odd though i need to find more info on this, both sciencitic and religious/spiritual

Is it something similar to this?

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There is a little "posted on" thingy right above each and every post.

Just in case you haven't noticed buddy.

OP's video just posted above:



This is very likely just a classic 22° Circular Halo:

22º radius halos are visible all over the world and throughout the year. Look out for them (eye care!) whenever the sky is wisped or hazed with thin cirrus clouds. These clouds are cold and contain ice crystals in even the hottest climes.

The halo is large. Stretch out the fingers of your hand at arms length. The tips of the thumb and little finger then subtend roughly 20°. Place your thumb over the the sun and the halo will be near the little finger tip.

The halo is always the same diameter regardless of its position in the sky. Sometimes only parts of the complete circle are visible.

Much smaller coloured rings around the sun or moon are a corona produced by water droplets rather than ice crystals.

Source: Atoptics

Go look up "parhelion" in google image search, see if that's what it looks like.

They're very interesting to see. You're about to have some bad weather, usually.

Alright here's an image from a friend of a friend of mine who lives close.

So its a halo? o.O weird i've heard halos are actually evil. Not sure how true that is though.

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Looks like a Halo. Its a common occurrence. Its just you've only now just noticed it.

I mean no sarcasm here but people really need to look up and look around more often.

Oh and eclipse means to cover or obscure not a halo or circle. Although I will say I have a nice laugh.

Originally posted by abeverage
I mean no sarcasm here but people really need to look up and look around more often.

Oh and eclipse means to cover or obscure not a halo or circle. Although I will say I have a nice laugh.

Well i didn't know >///

I'm always sky gazing. Would love to see one of these personally!