Common and rare halos
Taken by Voitto Pitkänen on June 16, 2016 @ Kuusamo, northern Finland
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  Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D80
Exposure Time: 10/2500
Aperture: f/10.0
ISO: 180
Date Taken: 2016:06:16 13:50:46
  
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Approaching frontal system with sun caused different halos, common and rare. I've never seen before anything like this. Awesome!
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A very fine display - congratulations.

Around the sun there is a 22 degree halo
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circular.htm
Touching it at top and bottom is a circumscribed halo:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circum.htm

Also circling the sun is a rare 46 degree halo:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/46hal.htm
A parhelic circle passes through the sun and around the sky:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parcirc.htm
There are sundogs on the parhelic circle the opposite side of the circumscribed halo from the sun.

Near the horizon are colourful infralateral arcs:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz893.htm

Extending up in the sky from the circumscribed halo and crossing the parhelic circle opposite the sun is a Wegener arc
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fza8.htm

There might be other halo arcs on high resolution original images.

Les - www.atoptics.co.uk
Posted by ato912 2016-06-18 07:40:14
Also possibly 120 degree parhelia

Les - www.atoptics.co.uk
Posted by ato912 2016-06-18 07:42:37
Awesome!
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