For background, I was on a tour coming back from Ballestas Islands just off of Peru, around 11:00 a.m., no rain (it’s a desert area), sky was partly cloudy. The phenomenon stayed a couple of minutes. As we progressed, the colours merged to a strand of amber.
Similar to a sun dog.
If you’re really lucky and conditions are perfect, you might see a lot of updog too.
*sigh*
what’s updog?
Crap, I didn’t think it would actually work or we would get this far… I’m freezing up…
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Sun dogs are refraction, and these clouds are diffraction
Oh! I thought OP’s pic was what a sun dog looks like.
I think it is, just with particular ice at a particular radius around the sun above.