While climbing a mountain in Washington, hikers photograph a "Brocken Spectre." — -- Two hikers witnessed a rare occurrence while climbing a mountain in Mount Rainier National Park: their own ...

The Brocken Spectre (German Brockengespenst) is an optical phenomenon that got its name near the foggy peak called Brocken in the Harz Mountains in Germany. The illusion appears when a low sun is ...

Go For Brocken. As Randall noted in the tweet, he'd seemingly experienced his first "Brocken Spectre" — a mind-bending optical illusion that occurs on misty days when the Sun casts a shadow of a ...

The Brocken spectre forms opposite the sun and is made up of a bright circle surrounded by rings of color, known as a glory. The central bull’s eye of luminance is formed by light reflected ...

The Brocken spectre is just one type of glory, where the shadow is being cast on a mountain. If you create a Brocken spectre, "you'll be standing with the sun at your back, ...

In his time photographing the area, he'd never seen a Brocken spectre before. “It was like an angel in the sky over the hills, it was quite magical,” he told SWNS.

The spectre appears when the sun is low in the sky and behind a climber who is looking down into the mist from a ridge or cliff edge. And it looks like a giant eerie ghost with a multicoloured ...

The Brocken spectre was seen elsewhere in the Peak District on Saturday. Steve Churchill captured it while at Lord's Seat in the Hope Valley. He said: "I've never seen anything like it before.

Brocken Spectre on the Cambrian Mountains (Image: Dafydd Wyn Morgan/Cambrian Mountains Initiative CIC). For those interested in the science behind the phenomenon, the Met Office has more to say ...

A Brocken spectre occurs when an observer's shadow is cast onto the upper surface of a cloud, often appearing inside a rainbow-like halo caused by light shining through water droplets.

A brocken spectre was caught on camera on the Cambrian Mountains - and it looks like something from a ghost story or alien invasion film. Wales Online.

The spectre appears when the sun is low in the sky and behind a climber who is looking down into the mist from a ridge or cliff edge. And it looks like a giant eerie ghost with a multicoloured ...