Saturday 20 July 2013

Pareidolia Proms - 19th july

western prom by Mark Townley
western prom, a photo by Mark Townley on Flickr.

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving seeing familiar patterns in random data - examples include clouds that look like animals, the face of the man in the moon, listening to records backwards and hearing hidden messages etc. Prominences on the limb of the sun are a great place where this happens, and friday provided a great example of this!