Sunday, July 26, 2015

Cathedral Conundrum

Photo date: July 24, 2015. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

A conundrum is defined as a "confusing or difficult problem or question."  That is an apt description of what this large orb is doing floating over St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

This orb sure wasn't the moon, as the next photograph showed no such orb (although it did show a smaller orb).

Both of these photos were uploaded directly from the camera, without any cropping. The orb in the top photo is 9.4% of the original photo height. Even if you deliberately raise lots of dust and take photos, you will not see dust orbs this large (as a fraction of the original photo height).

There was no fog, mist, rain, or precipitation on this night. The local air quality listed on airnow.gov was "good.".

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