Light Pillars over Borrowdale

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The old jetty on Derwent Water with light pillars overhead.  Light pillars are a rare optical atmospheric phenomenon.   Here the lights of Cockermouth are causing ice crystals in the atmosphere to shine as the light is reflected by them.  I had never seen this for myself and have never witnesses it since