iPhone 15/Plus Picture from my mom

[gigatoaster]

Hello there

My mom took this picture on her iPhone 15 and she is asking me if it’s a bug. Any thought?

Looks like a climate, thing or is this just a lens aberration?

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Lens flare

Lens flare - Wikipedia

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[Jackbequickly]

Internal lens reflections.

 

[now i see it]

Yep

 

[fatTribble]

I blame J. J. Abrams for the lens flare 🤭

 

[gigatoaster]

Understood. I told my mom but she said she saw it with her own eyes, too. 😮

 

[Kottu]

Sun dog - Wikipedia

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I have seen it a couple of times when it's really cold and humidity level is high. Couldn't find the photos I took.

 

[gigatoaster]

I believe you, @Kottu because lense flare is very specific. I’m color blind but is it a rainbow?

 

[MacLappy]

It looks beautiful.

 

[pacmania1982]

I've seen sunlight refracted in clouds before. I wouldn't say it was common but it's not a hardware bug on your Mom's phone.

 

[Regulus67]

It is ice crystals in the atmosphere that causes this. I have seen it a few times during my life, and I am 56 years old.
I have even seen a full circle around the sun, as it was high in the sky, and not near the horizon
You can see something similar around the moon at times. A small sphere of light surrounding it.

I suspect this is will become more common, as time goes by. Because of the whitening of the sky generally, from the exhaust from airplanes in the upper troposphere, and stratosphere. The ice is created by particles that it can bind to

edit: that small green dot to the left of the sun is lens refraction. At 1/3 distance compared to the ice ring

 

[Regulus67]

I believe you, @Kottu because lense flare is very specific. I’m color blind but is it a rainbow?

It is exactly like a rainbow, in the way the light has been bent. A rainbow bends the light inside the water droplets. The ice crystals reflect the light waves, as it has a particle at it's core

Polar stratospheric clouds – Australian Antarctic Program

Polar stratospheric clouds play a central role in the formation of the ozone hole in the Antarctic and Arctic.

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[Kottu]

I believe you, @Kottu because lense flare is very specific. I’m color blind but is it a rainbow?

Not like a Rainbow but like a mock sun. I found a couple of photos I took with my 12PM few years back. It's a common phenomenon in winter. When I have witnessed one like your mom saw, I was on a highway so I couldn't capture it.

What your mom saw, could be a Halo, which is related to Sun Dog. A rainbow needs both reflection and refraction. Halo is only refraction.

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[Kottu]

I've seen sunlight refracted in clouds before. I wouldn't say it was common but it's not a hardware bug on your Mom's phone.

He says that his mom saw it with her own eyes. Hardware bug??

 

[pacmania1982]

He says that his mom saw it with her own eyes. Hardware bug??

If you reread what I put I said I’ve seen something similar so it’s NOT a hardware bug