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peterggoral.bsky.social
This is a capture from Saturday’s sunrise. This is a sun pillar, created by the ice particles in the atmosphere. This typically occurs when the air is extremely cold. What a spectacular image. #sunrise #sunpillar #saturday
December 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
caroline-dianne.bsky.social
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South coast sunset memory. No filter. M. Nature’s unique sky show

#sky #blueskyartshow #sunpillar #sunset #inspire #photography #england #beach #photohour #nature
Seascape with spectacular sunset colours: vibrant red, orange, and pink cotton candy clouds fill the sky A narrow column of light rises from the setting sun on the horizon. Waves roll onto a dark, pebbled beach in the foreground.
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
earthskyscience.bsky.social
Robert Lepage in Ingleside, Ontario, Canada, shared this wonderful #sunpillar he captured yesterday. Thank you, Robert!
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Orange horizon with a pillar of yellowish light coming from the ground and reaching the sky. There are some trees in the foreground.
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
davemeredith.bsky.social
#Shiny ice on a frozen and partially snow-covered slough near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada for the #BlueSkyArtShow. With a weak sun pillar shortly before sunrise.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds #sunrise #sunpillar
August 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
loumusac.bsky.social
90 degrees upwards. Cirrus clouds and airplane contrails partying in the sky. The #sun let go a #SunPillar #SkyScape #UrbanGaze #atmosphere #Photography #WaterVapor is a #GreenHouseGas #Climate
A cloudy cirrus cloud filled sky mixed with airplane contrails. There is a deep pink pillar going around 90 degrees into the air.
July 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
johncnaylor.bsky.social
A sunpillar is, in fact, a glitter path in the sky, an atmospheric twin to the glitter path that one sees when looking out at a large body of water when the sun is close to the horizon. In the latter case, light is reflected from the surface of waves that crisscross the water.
June 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
johncnaylor.bsky.social
Dave’s image gives the lie to the common claim that a sunpillar is due to sunlight reflected by a vertical column of ice crystals. Here clouds stretch almost to the horizon, and are closer to the eye than the sun, which would block the vertical column of crystals. This very evident in my photo.
June 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
ianhook.bsky.social
Reasonably clear #sunset again at #Greatstone with a faint #sunpillar tonight in the second photo, otherwise more arty shots 🌞 #photography #ukweather #stormhour #kent
June 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
dipatag.bsky.social
Atardecer desde #Cádiz con Cirrus, Cirrostratus y un tenue pilar solar.
#sunpillar
June 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
nasapodsky.bsky.social
Astronomy Picture from 06/07/1999

A Sun Pillar

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990706.htm<a href="/hashtag/SunPillar" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#SunPillaru#AtmosphericOpticsi#SunsetMagics#IceCrystalsC#WinterWonderlandn#NaturePhenomenah#SkyPorn##AmazingNaturen#WeatherPhenomenah#OpticalIllusionIllusion
A stunning sunset featuring a vibrant sun pillar extending upwards from the horizon. The pillar is created by the reflection of sunlight off falling ice crystals in the high-level clouds, a breathtaking natural phenomenon. The fiery orange and red hues of the sky contrast beautifully with the silhouetted landscape and trees in the foreground.
June 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
cherylajohnson.bsky.social
Showy Sunset

Little did I know that what we saw last night was a sun pillar. Dan and I were just enjoying the colorful night sky. Next time I'll know.

Now enough procrastinating and off to overhaul my moon story.

#naturephotography
#sunpillar
#kidlitinspiration
#writingprompt
May 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
annatomic.bsky.social
Rising up to paradise❄️ #sunpillar
May 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
freedabees.bsky.social
Just after sunset this evening there was a sun pillar, which I believe is a phenomenon where ice crystals high in the atmosphere reflect light from the sun.

#sunpillar #Ireland #atmospheric #phenomenon #photography #Olympus #Zuiko #250mm #F2
May 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
owenthesignal.bsky.social
Sunset, my favourite time for a walk or run.
#SunPillar #Sunset #Hampshire #ShareMondays2025
Sun pillar, viewed from Upper Swanmore, Hampshire
April 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
A #SunPillar over the #SurreyHills
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#StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
April 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
loumusac.bsky.social
It’s a beam me up kind of day #SunPillar #Sun #abstract #Photography #Sunlight
The Sun one evening at sunset. The clouds were turned a bright yellow golden colour. A sun pillar is shooting 90 degrees straight up into the sky.
March 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
jasonbaluyut.bsky.social
Sunset on the Brooklyn waterfront, from last November. I was pleased to have captured a (rare?) sun pillar on this one.
#photography #sky #sunset #sunpillar #landscape #clouds #landscapephotography #iphonephotography
Sunset on a waterfront, with the masts of sailboats docked at a pier and some trees occupying the foreground. The Statue of Liberty is a tiny figure in the distance. The sun, low on the horizon, projects a glowing beam up into the clouds, which are dramatically lit in shades of orange, blue and gray.
March 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
jbmequifarms.bsky.social
Sunset

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#sunpillar
March 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
starrytraveler.bsky.social
Sun pillar or sun column taken with my iPhone 14 Pro.

#photo #photography #nature #iphone14pro #iphone #stunday #sunpillar #suncolumn
March 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
earthskyscience.bsky.social
Brenda Johnson in Clarksburg, West Virginia, saw this stunning #sunpillar over a nearby hill on Saturday. Thank you, Brenda! ☀️📸

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Bright vertical shaft of reddish light illuminating clouds above a distant hill, with houses in the foreground.
February 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
earthskyscience.bsky.social
Peter Lask in Oxford Township, Ohio, took this wonderful image of the #sun behind a silhouette of trees. Thank you, Peter!
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What is a #sunpillar, or light pillar? Read more here:
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A silhouette of trees with the orange sun on the horizon behind them. A vertical line of light coming from the sun reaches the sky.
February 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
sangasso.bsky.social
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... and this is the sunpillar as seen from NASA Goddard visitors center
February 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
woodcut55.bsky.social
Make that a sun Pillar #sunpillar instead of sun dog
February 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
roopegroot.bsky.social
On this day, in 2021.
A magnificent sun at dawn.
#SunPillar #AtmosphericOptical
February 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
davemeredith.bsky.social
Chantry Island #lighthouse and a giant sun pillar shortly after #sunset.

Chantry Island is just off the Lake Huron shoreline at #Southampton, #Ontario. The lake in the foreground is all frazil ice.

#winter #photographersofbluesky #photography #photo #sunpillar
Giant sun pillar behind an island with a lighthouse shortly after sunset
February 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM