After an excellent day weatherwise yesterday for my graduation in
Canterbury, I noticed a rather nice example of a sundog while travelling
home to Tamworth about an hour or so ago. Unfortunately, there aren't
many places where one can stop and wield cameras on the M6

Jonathan

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 21:25:11 +0100, Jonathan Stott wrote:

After an excellent day weatherwise yesterday for my graduation in
Canterbury, I noticed a rather nice example of a sundog while travelling
home to Tamworth about an hour or so ago.

There were weak sundogs around 8pm, and a nice sun pillar from 8:30 to
9 (roughly) just to the north of Newmarket tonight. That's a good
thing about flat countryside -- you get a good view of the sky and it
doesn't get cut off behind lumps of rock.


Mike

Congratulations on your graduation, Jonathan.
Another `dog' at this time of the year are the Dog-Days,July 3rd to August
11th as the Romans defined. They thought Sirius the dog star added to the
heat. At Concord's speed I believe it would take 3 million years to reach
the star and it is one of the nearest!

Ian Currie-Coulsdon
www.Frostedearth.com
"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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After an excellent day weatherwise yesterday for my graduation in
Canterbury, I noticed a rather nice example of a sundog while travelling
home to Tamworth about an hour or so ago. Unfortunately, there aren't
many places where one can stop and wield cameras on the M6

Jonathan

"Jim Smith" wrote in message
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So how do they arrive at those dates? anyone know?

When the Dog Star Sirius cannot be seen from our latitudes as it is not
above the horizon during hours of darkness (ie, in the Celestial Sphere, to
the south of the Sun)

It will become theoretically visible again in our morning skies before dawn
from about mid August (in practice, not until September probably). The mid
August date would apply to for example Egypt where they had active
astronomers many millennia ago

Jack