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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a panoramic iPhone shot of Harrisburg and the Belt of Venus that I took on the evening of Monday, March 1st.

 

https://inlightofnat...-earths-shadow/

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[Dave Mitsky]

I also took this iPhone photo of the Belt of Venus and the shadow of the Earth over the Harrisburg Beach Club on Monday evening.
 

https://skyandtelesc...-earths-shadow/

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a shot of the anti-twilight arch over the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building.

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[Dave Mitsky]

The State Capitol Building and some of the surrounding buildings lie beneath the Belt of Venus.

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[Dave Mitsky]

I took this iPhone shot of the Belt of Venus and the Earth's shadow on Sunday, March 9th, from a spot not too far from my home.

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[Dave Mitsky]

This iPhone photo is from Monday evening, March 10th.  I took it from the street where I live.

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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's an iPhone photo of the Belt of Venus, the Earth's shadow, and the waxing gibbous Moon that I took yesterday from a location that I haven't used previously.

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[Dave Mitsky]

I also took this panoramic shot yesterday evening.

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[LeoUK]

I did a bit of research today after seeing a couple of photographs of iridescent clouds taken by John Chumack and am now fairly certain that my wife captured an image of an iridescent cloud and not a portion of the circumzenithal arc.
 
https://www.facebook...&type=3
 
http://earthsky.org/...-what-causes-it
 
http://www.atoptics....plets/irid1.htm
 
Dave Mitsky

For what it's worth Dave, I believe you were correct with your first conclusion. 

 

I wish I'd come across this thread before. Some excellent images posted in this thread. I spent many an afternoon hunting atmospheric optical phenomena, especially around 2010-2012, when my wife and I would drive to a nearby local high point called Allport Heights in the Peak District here in the UK, with a trunk full of camera gear. Some of the displays we caught up there were epic - at least for me. 

 

Here are a couple of images from one such display in early July 2011. This is probably my favorite ever image I got of a CZA, taken with Canon 5D + old Nikkor AIS 600/4

 

Note the sequence of colours. Blue on top, going to red at the bottom. Same as your image. 

 

Here's an iridescent cloud (same location, but different day), that comes kind of close, for comparison, but look at the colours - they are messed up. The sequence of colours in your image is not just chance, in my humble opinion. 1Ds II + 180mm macro

 

 

Here is one more from that display in July 2011, showing a section of parhelic-circle and a parhelion (sun dog). 1Ds II + 180mm macro

 

Edited by LeoUK, 12 March 2025 - 07:47 PM.

[LeoUK]

Here's a more recent image, taken this January, on a mildly foggy night. Shooting though the branches of a tree produced quite a neat effect with this lunar corona. 1Ds II + 100mm macro

[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a photo of some sunset contrails that I took on March 11th.

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I took the following iPhone shots of the Belt of Venus, the Earth's shadow, and the rising 99.6%-illuminated Moon on Friday, March 14th.

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I took the following iPhone shots of the Belt of Venus and the Earth's shadow from the Naylor Observatory on Sunday evening prior to the start of the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg's April public observing night. 

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