Excellent photos.
It's a sun dog, or at least part of the 22 degree halo. Normally when you see a sun dog it's part of a larger area of cloud. What you have here is that one contrail being at the right altitude and with the right kind of ice crystals to create a sun dog.
See here:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/dogim0.htm
Remember what you are seeing is only a small part of what would be a larger optical phenomena if the contrail cloud were only large enough to reveal it. Sun Dogs are always at the same position relative to the sun, so I can take this one:
And overlay it on your image. You only see the portions of the sun dog that are revealed by the contrail:
And here's an other way of looking at it. The entire sun dog, and your cloud alone in the correct position
And then a full sun dog over your large photo
It's a sun dog, or at least part of the 22 degree halo. Normally when you see a sun dog it's part of a larger area of cloud. What you have here is that one contrail being at the right altitude and with the right kind of ice crystals to create a sun dog.
See here:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/dogim0.htm
Remember what you are seeing is only a small part of what would be a larger optical phenomena if the contrail cloud were only large enough to reveal it. Sun Dogs are always at the same position relative to the sun, so I can take this one:
And overlay it on your image. You only see the portions of the sun dog that are revealed by the contrail:
And here's an other way of looking at it. The entire sun dog, and your cloud alone in the correct position
And then a full sun dog over your large photo
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