April Solar Pillar

Hi all

On Monday evening myself and Conor where treated to an unexpected solar pillar as the sun dropped close the western horizon at 20.00UT We climbed a large hill (we where out in the country at the time) and watched it grow to become the brigtest solar pillar we have seen for here to date. It reached 10* in height and was a bright orange/yellow colour and amazed us both. I managed to get some images with an ordinary digital camera handheld at ISO80, here are the results.....

www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/forums/th...id=20477&posts=6

The next morning i was treated to a lunar pillar as the moon rose low in the SE very close to Antares. The pillar was 4* in height and very bright. I ran outsdie and took several images at ISO200 with a 2sec exposure with the camera tripod mounted. here are the results...

www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/forums/th...id=20479&posts=7


I hope to get a DSLR soon to do justice to these wonderful transient objects Thought i would share them with you anyway!

Clear Skies!

Martin, That sun pillar is really bright. Lucky you had the camera with you!
Keith..