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My wife would love it. She's from Gas Town....

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Yesterday, I saw the Falcon 9 launch in the predawn sky, and it was effing awesome!

Anyone who is within 500-600 miles of the east coast can see these launches if it's dark. They literally follow the coast on a north/south orbit, but as the world turns, it follows the coast.

There are probably 50 things that I have seen/done/experienced that most people will never see/do/experience, but this is in the top 5. It was THAT spectacular. :eek: It's up there with getting hit by three meteorites.

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A long time ago, while standing on the shore of a Canadian lake, I saw something in the sky that I never saw before or after. There were two circles, one was white, with the sun at its center, and the other was a rainbow colored circle, approximately the same size, tangential to the first like a figure 8. These two circles covered maybe 1/3 of the sky from horizon to horizon.

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About 20 years ago, around Labor day, about an hour before sunset, I was laying on my lawn, staring at the sky. I watched three separate strata of flying animals catching insects to eat. The lowest strata, about 50 ft. high, was composed of dragon flies. The next strata, about 300 ft. high, was composed of bats. The highest strata, about 500 ft. high, was composed of nighthawks. Remarkably, all three kinds of animals exhibited similar erratic flying patterns. There are no lakes or rivers within 10 miles of my house, so I have no idea where the dragon flies came from, but there were hundreds of them. It's a wonder that the bats and nighthawks didn't go after the dragon flies.

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From Folly Beach, SC

The only credit I can take is that my friend took the pic....

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That's a sundog. A complete one will have four false suns as well at 12, 3, 6 and 9:00 o'clock to the real sun.

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That's it! You're about two hundred miles to the east, so you had some light in the sky. It was still dark here. I tried snapping a pic with my phone but don't know how to slide the contrast thingy, so I got four or five pics of black, LOL.

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Maybe, but it doesn't match any of these images:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sund...ih=646&dpr=1.5

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I just now remembered a detail that I got wrong in my description above. The circles were not tangential to the each other. One circle had the sun at its center and the other circle went through the sun. And, now, I'm not sure which circle was white and which was rainbow colored. I'm guessing the rainbow circle had the sun at its center and the white circle went through the sun. Googling "ring passing through sun" turns up nothing so it must be very rare.

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Could be this.

Clouds and ice crystals .
https://earthsky.org/space/what-make...round-the-moon
https://science.nasa.gov/science-new...24oct_sunrings

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I have seen a number of them too.
The experience is a bucket list event like you had said.
The space shuttles made your lungs rattle.

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I'm wondering if the lake had something to do with it; a reflection of some sort? That could give a second sun if the light was then shining up into the ice crystals. One time in San Diego over Mission Valley, I saw a true rainbow and then four or five more. The sunlight was bouncing off of several cloud banks; each one creating a new direction of sunlight to make another rainbow in a totally different direction.

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The first of two super moons this evening.

If you read the entire article it will detail what's happening upstairs

.https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/18...oon-pink-moon/

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The only other "Super moon " for the year this month...

this one will make a great backdrop to some banana photos..

An eclipse for some ...
https://www.space.com/16830-full-moon-calendar.html
The Flower moon.:08:

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Strawberry moon....last supermoon for the year.

Summer solstice ....the sun is at its highest in the sky...It's all down hill after this:)

https://www.space.com/full-strawberr...supermoon-2021

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Tik tok......

Plan ahead...split,repot and transplant your plants.
Give them some time to regenerate.
Your days are getting shorter by a minute..Fall is just a few more minutes away.:ha:

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Cannot wait for it to cool down a bit, and to stay dark longer in the morning!

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While you are outside watering your plants or soaking in that warm pool....

After dark late..... check out the sky.....
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...wer-180978198/

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that looks bad ass

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Perseus is pretty easy to spot, too. Find Orion, because everyone knows where Orion is, and go up diagonally to the right, sort of in a line with the stars in his belt. There will be a faint smudge that disappears if you look directly at it. That is the Pleiades, and Perseus sits right on top of it.