Ice Crystal Halos

Post details: Two diamond dust displays near Moscow

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Permalink 11:50, by Vladimir Galynsky Email   English (EU)
Categories: Displays

Two diamond dust displays near Moscow

On 21 February ice crystals filled the air in Rumyancevo, a suburb of Moscow, and a halo display with relatively strong Moilanen arc was photographed by Alexandr Yakovlev. One of the photos, with unsharp mask enhancement, is shown above. Another photo is also given ( 1 ).

A year earlier, on 1 February 2007 Yakovlev photographed a diamond dust display with subsun and subparhelia from the 7th floor of a building ( 2 - 3 ). In the photos Moilanen arc is also present faintly. An unsharp masked image shows it better ( 4 ).

The original images of both displays are available on my blog ( 5 ).

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Comment from: marko riikonen [Visitor] Email
Moscow has regocnized halos! Folks in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union states are constantly increasing their halo output. Where are the Canadian and US halo folks? There is Walt in Fairbanks and Michael in Ohio, but that's it. With all those expanses of winter land potential for diamond dust... Such a waste!

The Yakovlev display has not the sharpest Moilanen arc but in intensity it equals or even exceeds parhelia and tangent arc. Crystal sample could have been interesting.
PermalinkPermalink 2008-02-26 @ 11:36
Comment from: Vladimir Galynsky [Member] Email · http://halo-belarus.blogspot.com/
Crystal photo (on trees) links:
http://i031.radikal.ru/0802/d3/68efafe29598.jpg
http://i033.radikal.ru/0802/cb/71baad39a56b.jpg
PermalinkPermalink 2008-02-26 @ 11:46
Comment from: marko riikonen [Visitor] Email
Ok, those are probably not equivivalent to the atmospheric crystals, but nevertheless photos make a nice point. Frosty trees mean diamond dust potential, air is supersaturated with respect to ice. If ice nuclei is introduced in the air in those conditions, the excess water vapor in the air will start depositing on the nuclei and diamond dust will form. The sad thing is that all too often the ice nuclei are missing and the excess humidity in the air can only deposit on ground objects. Again - such a waste.
PermalinkPermalink 2008-02-26 @ 13:20
Comment from: Michael Ellestad [Visitor] Email
Well I would of gotten quite a few diamond dust halos near the power plants but it seems like every time the conditions are perfect I got to work that day. Why can't it do it on the weekends.
PermalinkPermalink 2008-03-01 @ 06:17
Comment from: Gourmet Food [Visitor] · http://twitter.com/finestfoods123
thanks,
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