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From: Sharon Curtis (s.curtis_at_hidden_email_address.net)
Date: 02/26/2002

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I just wanted to thank everyone for their recent helpful replies concerning

>Centred on the glory was a halo, large and faint but definitely there.
>I am very used to seeing 22 deg haloes, and this was bigger than
>that, wider too, but not as big as a right angle. So I estimate the
>radius of this halo to be 30-something degrees.

I am now sure that this was indeed a fogbow. I have seen this phenomenon in clouds, and have been used to the name "cloudbow".

Thank you,

Sharon

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