"Kobra" wrote in message
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This may be something different, but I saw this flying to Lake George two
weeks ago. I was about 1000' above the deck with the Sun high above me.
My
frontseat passenger keep saying a circular rainbow was following us and
that
the plane's shadow was in the middle of it. She took a picture of it that
I
thought would never show up. But it did. I have to get her to scan it.

I told a friend of mine about it and he said that effect has a name. He
found it on the web and sent me this link:

http://www.touchingthelight.co.uk/features/brocken.htm

Low and behold...that is what we saw.

Kobra

FWIW...

If you want to bounce a target from directly out of the sun, place the
sunball squarely on your intended target.