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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.

While staying with relatives down in Bedford Indiana, one morning before we left to French Lick Casino I saw a large field of AC clouds slowly moving out of the area and I know AC clouds means elliptical halos. I…

On 1 October I got two elliptical halos and you can see them here. I would have gotten more pics but I was busy helping my mother get the house ready for the fall harvest party. I wish I could…