This resident living in Woodland Park, Minnesota, was stunned after spotting a rare optical phenomenon occur.

The homeowner filmed as a sun dog appeared on the horizon.

"I was actually quite pleased to be able to get the shot this morning. I literally was just going outside to make a quick TikTok actually and happen to notice that there was a sun dog going on," they said.

A sun dog is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that is caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere.

I was actually quite pleased to be able to get the shot this morning. I literally was just going outside to make a quick TikTok actually and happen to notice that there was a sundial going on. I did not really realize that it was supposed to be that cold this morning, so I was not prepared. I had no cold no gloves nothing so I wasn’t able to get as long of a shot as I would’ve liked.

This is actually a second video that I recorded of this morning Sundog in northern Minnesota. I zoomed in a little bit on this clip, I was actually quite pleased to be able to get the shot this morning. I literally was just going outside to make a quick TikTok actually and happen to notice that there was a sundial going on. I did not really realize that it was supposed to be that cold this morning, so I was not prepared. I had no cold no gloves nothing so I wasn’t able to get as long of a shot as I would’ve liked.