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Parhelic Circle, 46° Halo and circumzenithal arc, Markus A. R. Langlotz

Parhelic Circle, 46° Halo and circumzenithal arc

Parhelic Circle, 46° Halo and circumzenithal arc, Markus A. R. Langlotz

Parhelic Circle, 46° Halo and circumzenithal arc

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Today in the early afternoon, my kids were joking: There might be aliens landing!

In fact, what they saw was a quite seldom halo, a complete parhelic circle, intersecting a 46°-Halo around the sun and showing a circumzenithal arc towards the middle.

This is initiated by light refractionin ice crystals in very high layers of the atmposphere.

Pentax K3 II

Pentax DA* 11-18mm f/2.8 ED DC AW

11mm

f/11

1/640

ISO100

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Parhelic Circle, 46° Halo and circumzenithal arc, Markus A. R. Langlotz