Displays

Veit has sent this odd radius halo from southern Germany. He took the photos on 2 April 2012 at 10:48 CEST. More of his halo images cane be viewed in his Panoramio gallery ( 1 )

On the morning of 25th January 2012, I observed a large halo display near Achsheim, a little village north of Augsburg/Bavaria/Germany (450m elevation). Beside this village, there’s a little river called Schmutter. It’s not a skiing region and there are…

In the afternoon of October 14, I observed a large halo display in Bochum, Germany. It started at 14.25 CET (15.25 CEST) with circumzenithal and supralateral arc. During the following minutes, also the upper tangent arc, a bright Parry arc…

I took these pictures during the beginning of a flight from Paris to Washington DC on the 18th of September. It shows the subanthelic area. At first the subanthelion appeared alone ( 1 ). Then a short time later subparhelic…

These pyramidal crystal halos were observed by Anthelene over Sakaiminato city in West Japan. The most interesting features of this high cloud display are the 9°, 20°and 24° plate arcs. Marko Riikonen has made a simulation with HaloPoint2.0 ( 1…

Andreas Zeiske observed a pyramidal halo on 6 June 2011 in Frankfurt am Main. In the images, the 22° halo, 18° halo and the left 18° lateral arc can be seen about the St.-Katharinen-Church. The phenomenon formed on a thin…

The blog on atmospheric optics has moved to a new address ( 1 ), and has recently been updated with many interesting observations. As a teaser, Michael Großmann’s image of a tertiary order rainbow can be seen on the right.

The above image was photographed by Pitan Singhasaneh on 5 June in Bangkok, Thailand.

On 4 June 2011 Pietari Puranen observed these rainbows in Jyväskylä. When he turned around to see the sky around the sun, he observed an upper tangent arc. Remarkably, the arc formed in virga precipitating from the same low clouds…

On May 1st 2011 cumulonimbus clouds precipitating hail were commmon. These clouds exhibited clear praecipitatio and later in the evening they featured prominent virga. In these virga a sun pillar formed and as the sun descended behing stratocumulus a double…