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For all that responded, thank you for your helpful information. I hope to
see this corona again soon, but the weather hasn't been good (much wind
and
some rain).
Harald
At 02:31 PM 3/24/2005 Thursday, you wrote:
> > Over New Mexico (USA), between March 10 and 14
> > (5 days), there was a nice
> > corona around the sun in otherwise clear blue
> > sky. I initially thought the
> > corona was caused by particles high in the
> > atmosphere, but on the 12th I
> > noticed that it also was in front of a mountain
> > while the sun was
> > disappearing behind it. So, whatever caused
> > the corona was low-altitude
> > and it must have been pollen.
> >
> > Does anyone on the list know from which tree or
> > plant the pollen were?
> >
> > I am attaching two photos of the corona, taken
> > 12 March. Photo nr. 50 was
> > taken using a 125mm lens on a Nikon D100 which
> > has a 1.5x focal length
> > multiplier. I also took slides.
> >
> > Harald
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