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Car Headlamp Fogbow made by Jonathon Stone, Baileyton, Alabama on December 18. ©Jonathon Stone, shown with permission.


"The fog was thin all day... After the sun had set it began to get very thick...  It was still very thick when I decided to try the fogbow."

Jon used his car headlamps as a light source. He stood about 120 ft distant with the camera pointing in the direction away from the headlamps.

The main fogbow shows traces of colour with red on the outside. The first supernumerary inside the main bow has reversed colours.

The bright glow at the bow centre is light backscattered as a glory.

The two headlamps each produced their own glory and "Brocken Spectre" of the camera tripod shadow.




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