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    Cool link below, lets you track most aircraft including military flights.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bailey Guns View Post
    KC-46 flew over today and I noticed it had this weird halo around it. Didn't have the camera with me. 20 mins later another (or the same one) came over again. Same weird halo but this time I got a picture. A C-17 had come over as well but I didn't notice this halo effect. The C-17 was lower, though. The KC-46 was just skirting in and out of the lower edge of the overcast. Is there some physical explanation for this? Static electricity or something? Reflections from the clouds? I don't think I've ever noticed this before.

    ETA: The C-17 was also not directly overhead, either. It was maybe 1/4 mile off to the right in relation to the right wing of the KC-46. Maybe it was just because it was directly overhead.


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    Nice pic.
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    Clearly it's just an undiscovered bug. By the time you saw the third plane fly over they had that rendering issue fixed - thanks for reporting an error in your simulation!

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    A pilot crashed in Star Wars canyon. I think they stopped flying there.
    In that part of the desert I was on top of a Mountian I climbed as a teen and had a jet fly over me that kind of close. Scared the shit out of me didn't see or hear it coming.

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    Awesome pic!

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    I think you're seeing some version of being on the "receiving end" of a glory.

    Yhea, the sun isn't directly behind the plane, but the diffused lighting caused by the overcast is still being refracted around the plane, and it focused the light to a degree that it was brighter than the background overcast.

    The diffuse light source would also "smear" the colors you'd normally get from a glory and when combined, it'd be white (or the plane's speed smeared them over a very brief period of time, which is also possible).

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