Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

It is more than a coincidence that exactly a year ago, I clicked a strange-looking cloud from the balcony of my Sakyong Chisopani JHS, and on the same date this year, from the same school premises, I clicked photographs of a moving object in the sky that is not a cloud or a fighter plane contrail. My sky-gazing interest made me research what other sky events occurred that day/night across the globe, and interestingly, I came to know that on that night, across the north Indian states of India, including the state of Punjab, a  strange-looking line of bright lights  moving across the sky.  The photograph of the bright lines did look similar to the ones I took the photographs on that day; the only thing was that the cloud-like image I saw moved like a cloud. 02.12.21: Photographed from Sakyong Chisopani JHS Mysterious lights spotted in the sky in northern India leave many people puzzled. Exactly a year later, I came across a shooting star-like object moving across the sky. I...

03.12.2022: I have been following the different contrails in Sikkim since 2009, without a doubt what I saw yesterday was not a fighter jet contrail. At Sakyong Chispani JHS where I work, a group of students pointed at the sky and made noise. I too followed them and silently captured what they were watching. The so-called object was smaller than other contrails seen in the last 14 years. Another difference was that human-made things leave longer contrails. This was my first sighting of a shooting star-type object, so I do not know whether it was a comet or a meteor. This object went past the hills of Pendam.

27.09.19: So to see a Sun Halo or Sun Rainbow…you need high, thin cirrus clouds which are usually at altitudes above 20,000 feet. These clouds are usually a sign of thickening clouds and a chance for rain. These high altitude cirrus clouds are made of mostly ice crystals which refract the sunlight much like a prism will showing the colors of a rainbow. https://www.facebook.com/175338752641497/photos/a.271065376402167/1408768202631873/?type=3&theater&notif_t=page_post_reaction&notif_id=1569602551929871  

I do not understand how it is made but when caught on lens this phenomenon looks great. Folks, its halo- a ring around a sun from Sikkim. Enjoi!! This photograph was taken in March 2011.