Sun dog Explained
A sun dog is a bright spot beside the Sun, often flanking it within a 22 degree halo. Plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals bend sunlight to cause sun dogs. Larger plates wobble more, like a bad waiter.
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A sun dog is a bright spot beside the Sun, often flanking it within a 22 degree halo.
Plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals bend sunlight to cause sun dogs. Larger plates wobble more, like a bad waiter.
Sun dogs are red nearest the Sun, grading outward through orange to blue. Colors overlap and are never pure or saturated.
Sun dog forms through refraction of sunlight in the atmosphere.
People commonly misidentify any ice halo as a sun dog. The Oxford English Dictionary essentially shrugged.
In 1535, skies over Stockholm held white circles and additional suns for two hours. A painting documented it.
King Gustav Vasa saw the painting as a conspiracy. Gustav Vasa was not an art critic.
Sun dogs appear anywhere, any season. They're most conspicuous when the Sun sits near the horizon.