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2 Jun 2007 Ismo Luukkonen

FHON, the halo section of the Ursa Astronomical Association publish observations and halo related stories in Sivuaurinko-column of Ursa Minor -publication bimonthly. Ursa Minor is a bulletin for observation sections of Ursa (like halos, auroras, deep sky etc.). Here you can found halo sections Sivuaurinko-columns. Most of them have several observation drawings and in many cases figure texts are in English. Almost all have brief English summary as well.

Titles are translated to English, but columns are in Finnish. Text are as they have been published in Ursa Minor. Some are in HTML-format and some are in pdf-format (marked as pdf).

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 Year  UMi nro  Subjects
2007
3/2007 Editor: Ismo Luukkonen
Observations in March and April / Lowitz ja Parry met with the pyramids / End of March 31.3. / Sivuaurinko 20 years ago
2/2007 Editor: Ismo Luukkonen
Observations in January and February / Halo section news / Options for reporting / Credits for the halo book / Sivuaurinko 20 years ago
1/2007 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Halo year 2006 / Last observations of year 2006 / Year 2006 rarities in the world / Halo section news
 2006
6/2006 pdf Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
46° contact arcs photographed! / Diamond dust in Finland
Patrik Trncak: Rare halos in September - October 2006 in Czech Republic
5/2006 pdf Editors: Marko Riikonen and Jarmo Moilanen
Something about halo meeting / About the state of FHON / Section leadership / Observation database / Ursa Minor / Light and Color 2007 / Observations
Jari Luomanen: "Halotapaaminen Artjärvellä" (Halomeeting at Artjärvi)
4/2006 pdf Editor: Jarmo Moilanen 
Statistics 1882-1919 / Year 2005 / 23° upper plate arc identification
  3/2006 pdf Editors: Marko Riikonen and Jarmo Moilanen
Some discussion / Halo meeting / Observations / Drawings / Cygnus 2006  
  2/2006 pdf Editors: Marko Riikonen and Jarmo Moilanen
New FHON leader / Assistant leader  / 2004 summary / 2005 new observations  
1/2006 No Sivuaurinko-column
 2005
6/2005 No Sivuaurinko-column 
5/2005 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
FHON without leader? / Observations / Computer and observation / Stacking 
4/2005 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
E-mail list / Homepage / Photo experiments by Marko Riikonen / Wanted: New head for FHON
3/2005 No Sivuaurinko-column
2/2005 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations / Automatic halo watch
1/2005 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
All Parry arcs observed in Finland now! / Lunar display at Jämsä / 44° parhelia at Teuva / Lunar display at Teuva / Observations / Year 2003 / Halo sections list of frequently observed halos changed 
 2004
6/2004 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations from May to October 2004 / Measuring halos / Halo observing in Czech republic / A halo display finds its way into Guinness book of records 
5/2004 No Sivuaurinko-column
4/2004 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Greetings from Bad Honnef / Lower suncave Parry arc in Finland! 
3/2004 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Meeting in Germany / Halos in schoolbook / Observations in March and April 2004  
2/2004 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations in January and May 2004 / 7 March 2004 diamond dust in Tampere
1/2004 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
The 8th International Meeting on Atmospheric Optics / 44° parhelia observed in USA / Observations / Do not forget lunar halos
 2003
6/2003 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Article about artificical halos / Observations from Septembet and October 2003
5/2003 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations in June, July and August 2003 / Other observations / About observation reports
4/2003 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
FHON's meeting in Halikko / Year 2002 / 44° parhelia observation by Jari Piikki / Statistics and guides / Observation in May 2003
3/2003 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Light and color in Halikko! (FHON's meeting in June) / Alert system for halos and other sky phenomenon opened in Finland / Masters thesis about halo simulations / Halos in newspaper / Observations in March and April in 2003
2/2003 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Strange arcs of Alaska / Lower sunvex Parry observed in the Neatherlands / How about in Finland? / Observations in January and February 2003 / Year 2002 and halos by Ismo / FHON's meeting in June!
1/2003 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
44° parhelia now in Juva / Observations in November and December 2003
 2002
6/2002 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations in September and October 2002 / Ice crystal replicating / WWW / Meeting of FHON in next spring?
5/2002 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
44° parhelia and return of multiple scattering / Scanner for measuring halos / Some observations / About observation drawings and reporting
4/2002 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Assistant leader for the FHON / about elliptical halos / An other new halo again? / 90° parhelia observations in Germany / Fairbanks 6.3.2002 / 11. and 12. May 2002 display
Marko Riikonen: "Schultzin kaaret" (about Schultz arcs)
3/2002 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Year 2001 and halos / Observations / April 2002 / About Lowitz arcs
2/2002 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
April and halos / Radio- and newspaper stories / Observations from abroad / Observations of latest period (January and February 2002)
1/2002 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Quite old halo observation / December 2001 observations / Statistics by Ismo
 2001
6/2001 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
August - November 2001 observations
5/2001 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Display in 17 September 2001 in Oulu (Two odd radius displays with historical importance: Marko Riikonen's display in Oulu and Frank Nieuwenhuys' display in the Hague in 15 June 1973) / Observations of August and September 2001 (gallery of drawings) / 200 months of observations in a row (halo statistics of Ismo Luukkonen)
4/2001 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations of June and July 2001 / How to measure a halo? / Photo and measuring project
3/2001 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Halos of the period (April - May 2001)
Mika Sillanpää: "Light and Color in the Open Air"
2/2001 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Halo April 2001 (some links to photos of 10 April 2001 display) / New explanation for Parry? / The South Pole display in 10-11 Dec 1998 / February and March 2001 / Couple of WWW addresses
1/2001 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Summary of observations and observers in 2000 / Observations of December 2000 and January 2001 / Artifical light halos in Rovaniemi (observations by Reima Eresmaa in 12-13 Jan 2001)
 2000
6/2000 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Plans by halo section / Cubic ice in Applied Optics / Observations of October and November 2000 / Halo parties - part 2
5/2000 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations of August and September 2000 / Some tips for halo hunting / Halo parties - part 1
4/2000 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Cygnus 2000 / Observation of June and July 2000
3/2000 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations of April and May 2000 / WWW sites
2/2000 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Observations of February and March 2000 / Simultion program in Internet
1/2000 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
From Viitasaari to Anchorage / List of halos around artificial lights / List of halo forms / Observations of December 1999 and January 2000
 1999
6/99 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
The great diamond dust display at Viitasaari / No pyramidal Parry arcs in the Hague in 1973? / A graph (Distance of 23° upper parhelion and Parry arcs from the sun) / October and November 1999
5/99 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Arc of Moilanen in Germany already in 1972? / Studying halo photos with computer / August and September 1999 / Observation statistics of 1999
4/99 Editor: Jarmo Moilanen
Digging some old stuff (some interensting observations) / Halos of the last summer of the millenium (observations of June and July 1999) / About observation reports / sun pillar / Lets do some ice crystal replicas!
3/99 Editor: Teemu Öhman and Jarmo Moilanen 
Visit of Tape / About names of odd radius halos / Halos around artificial lights and on ground during the winter 1998-1999 / Observations of April and May 1999 / Observations from the Neatherlands
Marko Riikonen: "Maalis - huhtikuu Resolutessa" (March and April in Resolute)
2/99 pdf Editor: Teemu Öhman
Discussion about spring and state of the halo section / About name of odd radius halos / Premilinary comments from Resolute / Third replica of crystals of elliptical halos / Observations of end of Winter
Jarmo Moilanen: "Etelänapa II" (The South Pole II)
1/99 pdf Editor: Teemu Öhman
Lets go full speed ahead / Corrections, news and other messy stuff / Compiling statistics on observations / New and old observations
Jarmo Moilanen: "Kaksi kuukautta Etelänavalla" (Two Months at the South Pole)
J. Moilanen, M. Pekkola and M. Riikonen: "The Great South Pole halo display on 11th January 1999" (a leaflet, which was distributed at the South Pole station after the display of 11. Jan 1999)
 1998
6/98 pdf Editor: Marko Riikonen
Observations / Strange display from plane / The South Pole / More about ground halos / Halos around artificial light sources / Discussions / Last year of halos in this millenium
5/98 pdf Editor: Marko Riikonen
August - September / The Hague and August / Good photos of reflected Lowitz arcs / Halo photos from Devon Island / Members of FHON goes to the South Pole / About "sun cross" / Halos on surface (ground halos)
4/98 pdf Editor: Marko Riikonen
"Karu Pätkä" (something like: Stark stump) / 90° parhelion is pop again / About names again / Halos of Chile
3/98 pdf Editor: Mika Sillanpää
Spring went by / Phenomena on sky in April - May
Marko Riikonen: "Varamiehen varamies Resolutessa" (Supstitute of Supstitute in Resolute) 
2/98 pdf Editor: Mika Sillanpää
Spring ahead / Second sample of crystals of elliptical halos / Summary of February - March
1/98 Editor: Mika Sillanpää
Observations / "Blue spot" vs. Liljequist parhelia / compiling statistics on observations
 1997
6/97 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Stop the press! / New halos in Chile / Traditional Sillanpää-news / Halos during October-November
5/97 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Halos during August-September / 120° subparhelia - a halo not yet found in nature / Walter Tape, Günther P. Können and Robert Greenler
4/97 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Water in the Danube / Name of odd radius halos
3/97 Editor: Mika Sillanpää
Biiiiig news news news (at 46° distance has parhelia) / Whitsunday's events / mystery of 44/46° parhelia / Multiple hit / Halos produced by halos / Halos of spring /  Problem of 20° column arcs
Jorma Lameranta: "Halomittari" (Halo meter)
2/97 Editor: Mika Sillanpää
Biiiig news news news (ice crystals of elliptical halos captured) / So what kind crystals they are? / Largest elliptical halo of all times as addition / Observations / Very questionable Kern canditate
Jukka Ruoskanen: "Kaikuja Oimjakonin laaksosta" (Echoes from Oymyakon Valley)
1/97 Editor: Mika Sillanpää
Elliptical halos in Jyväskylä and other places in 21 Dec / More about elliptical halos / The "V" / About names of odd radius halos - again
 1996
6/96 No Sivuaurinko-column.
5/96 pdf Editor: Marko Riikonen
HAR / Observation in august - october
4/96 pdf Editor: Veikko Mäkelä
Observation project in Spring time / E-mail and the net / Observations in June - July
3/96 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Risk of health / Observations in February - April / New section leader
2/96 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Best days in 1995 / Small news
Jarmo Moilanen
: "Halojen tunnistamiseen apua polarisaatiosta" (Polarization as Tool for Halo Identification)
Marko Pekkola: "Pyramidihalojen nimet" (Names of Odd Radius halos)
1/96 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
A lunar display; 4.-5. Feb 1996 / About Halo project in April
Marko Pekkola
: "Raportti Fairbanksistä, USA" (Report from Fairbanks, USA)
 1995
6/95 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Halo articles from abroad / Ruoskanen's half year turn begin / October - November report / Last moments halo news from Central Europe (9 Oct 1995 display in Austria by Karl Kaiser) / 27 Nov 1995 display in November (in English)
5/95 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Official Finland recognize halos / August and September observations
Jarmo Moilanen
: "Jääkiteiden replikointi" (Ice Crystals Replicating)
4/95 pdf Editors: Marko Pekkola ja Marko Riikonen
Liljequist parhelia / Observations
3/95 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Visit to Fairbanks / Greenler in Finland / Observations
Timo Kinnunen
: "Halotietoa itänaapurissa" (Halo knowledge in Russia)
2/95 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
European trip and other news / January - February observations
Ismo Luukkonen
: "Kymppi täynnä!" (Ten Years of Observation)
1/95 pdf Editor: Anne Jokinen
New year new tricks / Halos of the dark season
Jarmo Moilanen
: "Katsaus massiivisesta halovuodesta 1994" (1994: Summary of Massive Year of Halos)
 1994
6/94 pdf Editor: Anne Jokinen
Walter Tape: Atmospheric Halos / Back to subject
5/94 pdf Editor: Anne Jokinen
July and August observations / 31. August 1994 Oulu, Finland / Observations
Marko Riikonen
: "Kameleontin vuosi" (Year of Chameleon)
4/94 pdf Editor: Anne Jokinen
Project results
Timo Kinnunen
: "Ellipsihaloista" (About Elliptical Halos)
3/94 pdf Editor: Anne Jokinen and Marko Pekkola
Two scientist in Finland (Tränkle and Können) / Observations
2/94 pdf Editor: Anne Jokinen
Top meeting / About observations
Ismo Luukkonen
: "Halot 1993" (Halos 1993)
1/94 pdf Editor: Marko Riikonen
New leader / Simulations/about crystals
 1993
6/93 pdf Editor: Anne Jokinen
Observations
5/93 pdf Editor: Marko Riikonen
Observations / Ice crystals / 8. Feb 1987 display solved
4/93 pdf Editor: Marko Riikonen
From May to July / Some simulation progress
3/93 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
'A real' halo Spring / Number one display of the Spring, Special-report
2/93 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
28. Feb. - The first complex display of the Spring
1/93 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
News from University of Wisconsin
 1992
6/92 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Observations, obvervations... / Some news
5/92 No Sivuaurinko-column.
4/92 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Halos of early Summer / Chaos of odd radius halos
3/92 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Strange Spring
2/92 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Time for a summary (1991) / November - December halos
1/92 No Sivuaurinko-column.
 1991
6/91 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Great halo activity
5/91 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Busy summer
4/91 No Sivuaurinko-column.
3/91 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
'
Climax' of the halo year
2/91 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
Beginning of the year / Halos in Asia
1/91 pdf Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
November - December observations / International events 
 1990
6/90 pdf

Editor: Jukka Ruoskanen
New section leader / September - October halo report / New old observations / Winter and diamond dust (hopefully...)

5/90 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
End in the beginning / Light and color in the open air / May - August halo report
C-90 pdf Editor: Veikko Mäkelä
Presentation of the halo section in a special Ursa Minor issue Presentation of the sections for Cygnus-90 summer meeting. Presentation is translated into English.
4/90 No Sivuaurinko-column.
3/90 pdf Editor: Marko Riikonen
Observations in March and April / Return to year 1989
2/90 pdf Editor: Timo Kinnunen
Observations in January and February
1/90 pdf Editor: Timo Kinnunen
1980's / Topical
 1989 
6/89 pdf

Editor: Marko Pekkola
Some already told news / Ursa Minor / Coding system for halos / September - October halo report
Timo Kinnunen: "Gyldyyriä, gyldyyriä" (almost impossible to translate...)

5/89 pdf Editor: Timo Kinnunen
A
revolution / Result
4/89 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Sparks of light / March - June halo report
3/89 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Summer greetings / Really strange news / Again new failed promisies / Summer readings
2/89 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Best halo studies between 1979 and 1988 / Summary of results of 1988 / Analyzis / January - February halo report
1/89 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
November - December halo report / Elliptical halos! / Summary of properties of elliptical halos / Kuopio 21. -22. Nov / November - December events
 1988
6/88 pdf

Editor: Marko Pekkola
September - October halo report / Halos of September and October
Timo Kinnunen: "Horisonttirenkaan polarisaatio" (Polarization of parhelic circle)

5/88 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
May - August halo report / Hunting for Möttönen's halo / 1. elliptical halo outside of Hissink's elliptical halo
4/88 No Sivuaurinko-column.
3/88 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
March 1988 and status of March in general / Lonely Venus pillars / Couple of words about April / Examples of elliptical halo / A statistical study
2/88 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Bottom / Figures with numbers and drawings / 30/31. Jan Imatra and rest of the Finland / Planetary halost 20-21. Feb and 26-27. Feb / More about Hissink's case / Other news from the Neatherlands / Some news like stories
1/88 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
End of the year halos / Fairytails, legents, UFOs and Hissink's halo / Rest of the November-December report / Diamond dust problems?
 1987
6/87 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Wind of Autumn / Current and old news / Confessions
5/87 No Sivuaurinko-column.
4/87 No Sivuaurinko-column.
3/87 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Halomuotoyhteenveto / Halo report of Spring - general notes
2/87 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
About observations / Observations of 1986 / January - February halo report / Lunar halo display in Helsinki 14.-15. February
1/87 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Those few halos of the end of the year / November and a window / Diamond dust of December
 1986
6/86 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Halo report of Autumn / 46° parhlia / Two October specials / Goodbye rare Lowitz arcs
5/86 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Halo reports of the end of Summer / A wave of complex halo displays in July
 Valot ja värit 1986 
Halo observations was in Valot ja värit (lights and colors) -column of Ursa Minor last time in Ursa Minor number 4/86. After that halos got own Sivuaurinko-column. So the first Sivuaurinko-column was published in Ursa Minor number 5/86 althought halo section of Ursa was only a subsection under Ursa's atmospheric light phenomena -section until mid 1989. After that Ursa's halo section has been as independent section under Ursa Astronomical Association.
4/86 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
May and halos / Background for halos in 27th May / Halos of June
3/86 No halos.
2/86 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Halos in 1985
1/86 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
A current and friendly remark / 46° new problems / Halo report
Mika Koistinen: "Sään muutos & mittauskeinoista" (Weather change and measurement methods)
 Valot ja värit 1985
6/85 pdf

Editor: Marko Pekkola
Halo section / Some tips / Halo report / 6th of September 1985

5/85 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
Halo forms in 1984
4/85 pdf Editor: Veikko Mäkelä
About halos of year 1984
3/85 pdf Editor: Marko Pekkola
News from Kuopio or complex halo display of Spring
2/85 pdf Editor: Veikko Mäkelä
About halos / Halo form abbreviations / Strange diamond dust display / Literature tips for optical phenomena observers
1/85 pdf Editor: Veikko Mäkelä
Mail your observations
 Valot ja värit 1984
6/84 No halos.
5/84 pdf

Editor: Veikko Mäkelä
June-July halos / Halos and sunglasses / Observation regions

4/84 pdf

Editor: Veikko Mäkelä
Small historical story / Halo report / Some complex halo displays / About observations

3/84 No halos.
2/84 pdf Editor: Veikko Mäkelä
Halos of 1983 / Specialities of circumzenithal arc / Short cloud lesson for halo observers / About observations
1/84 No halos.