Subsuns from space
The publication of the Mars halo on this site stimulates me to dig in history. On 27 April 1975, I saw by change a picture of a subsun taken from space ( 1 ). It is here on the frontal…
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
An unknown halo and other displays by Jukka Ruoskanen
Jukka Ruoskanen has scanned his best halo slides ( 1 ). The material spans from year 1988 to 2005 and includes several displays of interest. Some cases are rather puzzling, like the one shown above, photographed on 23 December 2001.…
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A halo on Mars and other papers by Gunther Können
Gunther Können, who has produced a decent number of halo papers, has put his works on-line. These are found in the atmospheric optics section of his web page ( 1 ). Among others, there is an article about subsun on…
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Subsun and Bottlinger’s ring
Dmitry Savvateev observed a subsun in 2006 in the Khibiny Mountains (Kola Peninsula, part of the Murmansk region). This subsun, however, seems to be accompanied by a much rarer halo: Bottlinger’s ring. Even though this case is a marginal one,…
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Display in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Dmitry Kuznetsov saw this complex display in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on 1 April 2007. The vertical arrows in the photo denote the Wegener arc and the horizontal arrows point at faint helic arc. Dimitry described also subanthelic arc, but it is located…
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Halo vs glory
The photo above is intended to be food for thought, as it shows a rather controversial phenomenon. Mónika Bodó took this picture on 27 March 2008 between 16:43 – 16:46 on a flight from Athens to Budapest. As an air…
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