Sun Dogs

Sun dogs this morning from Colorado Springs, CO. A sun dog is formed by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in clouds, the ice crystals align horizontally as they fall, causing the sunlight to refract and form the sun dogs. The red end of the spectrum always appears on the inside, and the blue on the outside of the sun dog. They're usually observed when the sun is low in the sky on a chilly morning (a brisk -1 deg F this morning), and they are reliably about 22 degrees left and or right of the sun.

Olympus EM1 iii, 15 mm focal length, 1/500 shutter speed, F22, iso 200

Cropped, saturation and clarity slightly adjusted