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Halo?

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On September 19, I photographed (I'm not sure exactly) part of the solar halo. Interestingly, as such, there was no halo around the Sun. The fact that the photo is all that was interesting.

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Re: Halo?

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Fabulous!! :hamster:

It's called a Sun dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

You have just the left hand part probably because you don't have enough cloud in the right place to see the other parts of the optical phenomenon. Most of the time I only see one part too.

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Thanks for the link and information, Alexandra. Quite a funny name "sun dog".

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Hi Ivan,

Alexandra was faster ...

Here is a very interesting page about what all the Ice crystals do with the Sun light

https://www.atoptics.co.uk/


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Hi Rainer, Thanks for the link, so many different effects, I read it with pleasure.

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