Forest Fire from afar

Forest fires burning in Canada have sent smoke for a long ride to the skies over Duluth.  This with some humidity caused a heavy haze that turned the sun an orange-red color.  It also provided a filter to reduce the light intensity of the sun and I was able to get some shots of the current sunspots.

The smoky haze in front of the sun

Visible sunspots

Labeled Sunspots

A halo as I hurried home

A thin veil of icy clouds in front of the sun helped display a solar halo this afternoon as I was driving home and was near Pike Lake.  Later in the evening, there was a light corona around the full moon.

Solar halo seen over Pike Lake.