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On the way home from work I photographed a bright elliptical halo ( 1 ). Later on as winds from a cold front pushed a lot of low level cumuliform clouds away and I was on the state route when…

On 10 January 2009, Jan Smejkal observed a complex display in Prichovice, in which some rarer halo forms – such as the anthelion brightened by crossing Tricker arcs – were in action, too. The more frequent halo arcs included suncave…

The photo on the right, and another one ( 1 ) were taken on an airplane from Beijing to Singapore on 3 January. The Bottlinger Rings appeared two times in total, when the plane flew above patches of dissipating AC…

On 17 January, I (Matej Grek) went to Malenovice near Lysa hora in the Beskydy mountains to “hunt” halos in diamond dust, because humidity was near 98% and temperature below zero. However, as the temperature was still not low enough,…

The new year started with two nice diamond dust displays on 3 and 7 January. The weather situation was similar: above the Inn valley there was a low stratus layer with an upper limit of ca. 1000-1200m. The passable Sudelfeld…

On 26 December, diamond dust halos were captured by webcams (Hydronet network) at Lysa hora in Krkonose (Giant Mountains). In addition to the more usual phenomena, there were helic arc, Tape infralateral arc and Wegener arc in the sub-area. The…

On a couple of days there have been ground halos in Juva. It was best seen on a sportsfield running track. I stacked 45 images in Photoshop. Photographed with 10-mm and cropsensor. Text: Jari Piikki

The weather in Vecsés, Hungary was mostly grey on 12 November, therefore the display came rather unexpected. Low in the horizon, covering the place of the parhelia and most of the 22° halo there was a thick cloud which remained…