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Marilynne

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Looked for a Sun Dog thread. Found three that were not general. If someone finds one, please let me know and I'll merge this thread with the other.
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Marilynne

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BF Hammer said:
Marilynne I thought a sun-dog was when a ring forms around the sun in a sky with ice crystals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog
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From your link - Sun dogs typically appear as a pair of subtly colored patches of light, around 22° to the left and right of the Sun, and at the same altitude above the horizon as the Sun.

This was to the left of the sun.

[h=3]WHAT ARE SUN HALOS?[/h]You may have heard of a related phenomenon called a “sun halo.” In this case, it’s an entire circle of light 22° wide around the Sun. Similar to sundogs, sunlight is refracts through ice crystals; these hexagonal ice crystals are suspended in cirrostratus clouds.
 
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