January | 2008 | Ice Crystal Halos

Kern arc in searchlight beam in Kilpisjärvi

30.1.2008 7 Marko Riikonen

Sometimes it happens that when first photos of some halo are taken, more start piling up in the wake. This was the case for example with elliptical halos. Now the Kilpisjärvi halo expedition seems to have resulted in second Kern…

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Complex halo display in Destne

30.1.2008 4 kiricsi

One of the most striking halo displays of recent years in the Czech Republic was observed on December 25, 2007 in Destne in the Orlicke Mountains. Diamond dust halo phenomena highlighted the sky shortly after 12 local time (CET) and…

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Well defined Moilanen arc in Viitasaari

30.1.2008 1 Marko Riikonen

On 23 January Jaakko Tähti was doing product photography in a factory in Viitasaari when he got a phonecall that there was a good halo display in the sky. He could not get outside but had a look at the…

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Making halos in Kilpisjärvi

29.1.2008 2 kiricsi

On 19th January the four of us, Jukka Ruoskanen, Marko Mikkilä, Ágnes Kiricsi and Marko Riikonen gathered at the Kilpisjärvi biological station in northern Finland to make halos. We had got some evidence that weather conditions in the Kilpisjärvi area…

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Kern arc photographed in Finland

27.1.2008 24 Make

On the 17th November I drove 250 kilometers to the town of Sotkamo to check if there were any diamond dust halos. Two weeks earlier I had made the same trip, but the snowguns hadn’t produced any halos. This time,…

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Halo and northern lights

24.1.2008 1 Marko Riikonen

Some ten years ago or so my friends and I went though Finnish Meteorological Institute automatic northern light camera films in search for moon halos. At that time I considered the northern lights as unnecessary noise that disturbed the distinction…

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Moilanen arc and diffuse anthelic arcs in Prichovice

23.1.2008 1 Marko Riikonen

A superb halo complex was observed by Petr Kousal on December 25, 2007 in community of Prichovice. He observed 22° halo, parhelia, pillar and also bright upper tangent arc with sunvex Parry arc. Except for these quite frequent phenomena he…

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Moilanen arc in Paprsek

21.1.2008 2 Marko Riikonen

In Czech mountains Ivo Bartos observed diamond dust halos on December 23, 2007 near ski area of Paprsek, which is situated in the highest Moravian mountains. From 2 to 5 pm he most of the time observed sun pillar and…

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Two Parry arcs in Ohio

20.1.2008 1 Marko Riikonen

While at work prior to leaving I was outside and happened to look up and saw nice wide tangent arc spreading out. Inside it was a convex Parry, the first decent one since 2000. As I watched and shot photos…

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The arms of parhelia and subparhelia on the Pansky Vrch hill

15.1.2008 4 Marko Riikonen

On December 23, 2007 (1:40 – 3:50 pm) Ladislav Nyc observed during his afternoon walk bright halos in diamont dust. When he went up from inversion cloudiness to see sunrays, on the hill of Pansky Vrch a great spectacle came…

Monthly Archives: January 2008

Kern arc in searchlight beam in Kilpisjärvi

Complex halo display in Destne

Well defined Moilanen arc in Viitasaari

Making halos in Kilpisjärvi

Kern arc photographed in Finland

Halo and northern lights

Moilanen arc and diffuse anthelic arcs in Prichovice

Moilanen arc in Paprsek

Two Parry arcs in Ohio

The arms of parhelia and subparhelia on the Pansky Vrch hill

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