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This photograph of the sunrise, which we see in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos, has been captured from the Passeig MarÃtim de Sitges, in Garraf, when it seemed that the clouds wanted to engulf the sun that was rising at that moment.
In the image we can see how the solar pillar is formed, which escapes the threat of the clouds, reflecting on the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
A pillar light is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source.
The effect is created by the reflection of light from small ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere or that comprise high-altitude clouds (for example, cirrostratus or cirrus clouds).
If the light comes from the sun (generally when it is near or even below the horizon), the phenomenon is called a solar pillar, as in this case in Sitges.
