Created 8-Oct-11
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This colorful phenomenon, known officially as a circumhorizon arc, occurs when sunlight strikes cirrus clouds — the kind that typically look like cotton candy and form very high in the sky — at a certain angle.
Photographer's Note: dark edged photos shot with polarizer.
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Photographer's Note: dark edged photos shot with polarizer.
For more information go to: http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/rainbow-cirrus-clouds-circumhorizon-arc-1639/
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