<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/6ZGFr.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/6ZGFr.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a>I was taking photos of a storm moving through the area, Southwest of Fort Worth, Texas and caught this image in one of the series. The photography is a hobby. I was using my IPhone 6. I researched meteorological optical phenomena, rings, circles, halos, compared pictures I found and did not find anything similar. 6:45 in the evening. The angle of the phone was probably 60-70*;SSE sky with sun beginning to set in the West and the moon is visible low in the photo. Thanks.</p>

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2020-08-31T03:49:47.030Z
A key question is did you see it visually as well at the time?  If not, there's a high chance it's a digital artifact?
JeopardyTempest
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2020-08-31T07:00:33.913Z
Could be last rays of the setting sun shining over the cloud next to this one, illuminating only this small part of this cloud.
Erik
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2020-09-02T23:22:11.370Z
You could try asking https://photo.stackexchange.com/search?q=artefact. Images from there: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:photo.stackexchange.com+artefact&hs=JnK&source=lnms&tbm=isch
Keith McClary
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2020-09-05T13:16:10.827Z
Sorry, busy week so I was unable to follow up on the comments. The bright spot was visible and one of the reasons I took this particular shot. It was not clearly discernible as a ring. I went back and downloaded the series of pictures onto my computer to view from a larger source and did not find anything similar in the series. I could not discern any pixelation in the image either. It could be a artifact, but seems not to follow the usual form from the sources I’ve seen on limited reference. I’ll repost in the photo/stack/artifact when I get time.
Don Dean
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Unusual small bright ring in storm cloud
Don Dean
# Unusual small bright ring in storm cloud

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-08-30)

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/6ZGFr.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/6ZGFr.jpg)I was taking photos of a storm moving through the area, Southwest of Fort Worth, Texas and caught this image in one of the series. The photography is a hobby. I was using my IPhone 6. I researched meteorological optical phenomena, rings, circles, halos, compared pictures I found and did not find anything similar. 6:45 in the evening. The angle of the phone was probably 60-70\*;SSE sky with sun beginning to set in the West and the moon is visible low in the photo. Thanks.

**Tags:** atmospheric-optics

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: A key question is did you see it visually as well at the time?  If not, there's a high chance it's a digital artifact?  
> **username_2**: Could be last rays of the setting sun shining over the cloud next to this one, illuminating only this small part of this cloud.  
> **username_3**: You could try asking https://photo.stackexchange.com/search?q=artefact. Images from there: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:photo.stackexchange.com+artefact&hs=JnK&source=lnms&tbm=isch  
> **username_0**: Sorry, busy week so I was unable to follow up on the comments. The bright spot was visible and one of the reasons I took this particular shot. It was not clearly discernible as a ring. I went back and downloaded the series of pictures onto my computer to view from a larger source and did not find anything similar in the series. I could not discern any pixelation in the image either. It could be a artifact, but seems not to follow the usual form from the sources I’ve seen on limited reference. I’ll repost in the photo/stack/artifact when I get time.  

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