{"id":13224,"date":"2014-02-05T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/facebook\/gorgeous-bright-sun-dog-appears-soon-after-sunrise-in-denver-if-you-happened-to-look-to-the-east-at\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:29:56","slug":"gorgeous-bright-sun-dog-appears-soon-after-sunrise-in-denver-if-you-happened-to-look-to-the-east-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/gorgeous-bright-sun-dog-appears-soon-after-sunrise-in-denver-if-you-happened-to-look-to-the-east-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Sunrise sun dog appears in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you happened to look to the east at about 7:45 a.m. this morning you were treated to something pretty cool \u2013 a sun dog.<\/p>\n<p>A sun dog is also called a \u2018mock sun\u2019, \u2018phantom sun\u2019 or \u2018parhelia.\u2019 These appear as bright spots to either side of the sun at the same distance above the horizon. They are caused by sunlight refracting through hexagonal ice crystals, usually in cirrus clouds. As the light hits the crystals, it is bent 22 degrees before reaching your eyes, thus creating the phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>We took these images in north Denver.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-q9eS2pya8kY\/UvJi1toUwNI\/AAAAAAAABkc\/pmZQrrvu8hw\/s0\/001.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-q9eS2pya8kY\/UvJi1toUwNI\/AAAAAAAABkc\/pmZQrrvu8hw\/s580\/001.JPG\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" alt=\"February 5, 2014 - The full, bright sun dog. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" class \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 5, 2014 &#8211; The full, bright sun dog. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-PmB1vipWIMk\/UvJi1rzvToI\/AAAAAAAABkU\/OHMR46vKtSw\/s0\/002.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-PmB1vipWIMk\/UvJi1rzvToI\/AAAAAAAABkU\/OHMR46vKtSw\/s580\/002.JPG\" width=\"435\" height=\"580\" alt=\"February 5, 2014 - The north 'mock sun.' (ThorntonWeather.com)\" class \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 5, 2014 &#8211; The north &#8216;mock sun.&#8217; (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-BT1Ly_l4qGQ\/UvJi2PiRcxI\/AAAAAAAABkg\/4l0hprvtLr4\/s0\/003.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-BT1Ly_l4qGQ\/UvJi2PiRcxI\/AAAAAAAABkg\/4l0hprvtLr4\/s580\/003.JPG\" width=\"435\" height=\"580\" alt=\"February 5, 2014 - The south 'mock sun.' (ThorntonWeather.com)\" class \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 5, 2014 &#8211; The south &#8216;mock sun.&#8217; (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happened to look to the east at about 7:45 a.m. this morning you were treated to something pretty cool \u2013 a sun dog. A sun dog is also called a \u2018mock sun\u2019, \u2018phantom sun\u2019 or \u2018parhelia.\u2019 These appear as bright spots to either side of the sun at the same distance above the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/gorgeous-bright-sun-dog-appears-soon-after-sunrise-in-denver-if-you-happened-to-look-to-the-east-at\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photos: Sunrise sun dog appears in Denver<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[661,682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13225,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions\/13225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}