For many this term is new. “The glory”is a phenomenon caused by sunlight when it interacts with water drops that form clouds. It consists of one or more concentric rings, successively weaker, each of which is between red on the outside and blue in the center..
The Biscayan photographer based in Tenerife, Imanol Zuaznabar, captured a “spectacular optical phenomenon” during a flight that took off from the Island to Bilbao. As he explains, it is an effect called “glory”.
To see a glory, the sun must be behind the viewer, be it a person or a camera, with a cloud in front. They are common to see from airplanes, tall buildings and from the tops of mountains.
When you look up at the cloud, you will probably see the shadow of the plane. The shadow may be surrounded by a multicolored ring of light or a halo. That halo of light is called glory. Also, the glory-causing clouds must be located below the observer and in a straight line with the sun and the eye of the person seeing it.
Due to its appearance, this optical phenomenon It is sometimes confused with a full circle rainbow, but that type of rainbow is much larger in diameter than a glory and is caused by different physical processes.
