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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Two halo days in the northern part of the Czech Republic
At the weekend of 15 – 16 March, observers in the northern part of the Czech Republic had some opportunity to see rare halo phenomena. On 15 March, in the afternoon, fine cirrostratus came from the west, and subsequently bright…
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Diamond dust display in Dolni Morava
On 29 December 2007, Radomir Vondra observed a complex diamond dust display above an inversion cloud layer. He was walking to the ski slope in the village of Dolni Morava, when he saw the halos between 12:30 and 13:00. The…
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ESEM column crystal photo
Column crystals are a dime a dozen, but the ones shown here are nicely positioned and thus unusually revealing. Although we were collecting atmospheric crystals at the time, these monsters are probably frost crystals from the dewar mouth that fell…
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Moilanen arc in Zaton, Sumava mountains
On 3 February, Milan Osecky observed a diamond dust display with sharp Moilanen arc by the village of Zaton. The halo was seen during sunrise, when the Sun was about 4° above the horizon. The phenomenon lasted approximately 8-10 minutes,…
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Reflection subsun in California
On 1 February, Steve Sumner in Auburn, California, observed a peculiar phenomenon in the sky. A bright elongated spot, which was apparently not lit directly by sun rays, occurred in front of an Altocumulus cloud. In the photo the Sun’s…
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Sunvex Parry arc on Lysa hora
In the evening of December 22, 2007 Emil Brezina had the opportunity to observe halos on cirrostratus clouds from the top of Lysa hora, the highest peak (1323 m) of the Moravian Beskydy mountains. Among these halos, there was an…
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Complex halo display in Destne
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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Making halos in Kilpisjärvi
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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Moilanen arc in Mátraszentimre, Hungary
This photo shows the diamond dust display near Mátraszentimre skiing resort in Hungary on 30th December and was taken by photographer Zsuzsanna Tóth. The snow guns were on, and the halo appeared in the early afternoon and lasted about an…
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