One additional image of the rising Moon with a pine pollen corona. It was quite easy to see with the unaided eye.
This was taken on May 12 at 22:26 CEST north of Hanover, Germany.
3.2 seconds exposed at f/6.3, ISO 640 and f=200 mm.
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Tree sex makes colored rings in the sky – Yesterday, I observed pollen coronas around the sun and the moon.
These colorful rings appear around the sun / the moon when airborne pollen diffracts the light (=deflects it depending on its color).
Different pollen types make different coronas. Here, it is likely pine pollen.
pic 1 at 14:08 CEST, f=200 mm, sun covered by street lamp.
pic 2 at 22:27 CEST, f=200 mm, moon overexposed
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If you expose the image more (here the same conditions as before, but t=1.3 seconds), you can see the typical multiple diffraction rings.
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Very nice pollen based atmospheric optics.
Last night I observed a pollen corona around the bright moon. These colored rings around the moon are created when its light is refracted by airborne pollen.
Depending on the type of pollen, different ring shapes and sizes appear. This one is probably from pine pollen.
Image: 22:53 CEST | f=300 mm | aperture 5.6 | ISO 1250 | 0.5 s
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I do have to rewrite some of the code I wrote yesterday as I'm hard coding things that I could be pulling from the settings file, and I'd like this program to work for humans who are not me working in this specific x-ray lab.