"Sun Pillar" at Sunset
*featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website on March 13, 2001*
I captured this shot on Feb. 27, 2001, from across the street where I lived in suburban Des Moines, Iowa.  I knew this photo opportunity might be coming when I noticed the sun about a half hour before sunset, ice crystals were in the air.  I used my Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera on auto-expose mode. 
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In November of 1999 I didn't even know what I had captured in this shot of a sun pillar
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