Sundogs

 

Sundogs photographed with a smartphone by, friend of the Observatory Lulu,  from water meadows south of Abingdon in Oxfordshire. 

"A sundog is a concentrated patch of sunlight, which may be seen to the left or right and sometimes both sides of the Sun. They, like sun haloes, are caused by sunlight being refracted by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere". - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.