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Thanks Marcel.
Ken
On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Marcel Tschudin wrote:

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> Ken, you wrote:
>
>> I  would say that the picture is a fake of some kind, because the sun
>> exhibits no refractive "squash".
>
> If the picture is a fake of some kind or not is not necessarily
> related to the sun not showing a refractive squash. The sun shown has
> the "normal" appearance of an Omega-sun which, due to the large
> super-adiabatic lapse rate, has a different shape than the "normal"
> sun with the refractive squash. I observed and photographed a lot of
> those real Omega-suns. Usually I notice them only afterwards when
> looking at the pictures taken with a 6x zoom.
>
> Marcel
>
> >


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