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Sun Halo

author: S.Beaucourt/Novapix

reference: t-met03-00033

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 22 cm

Halos are caused by sunlight being refracted by cirro-stratus clouds. These are thin clouds, very high in the atmosphere, and are composed of ice crystals. They bend light at a 22 degree angle, which creates a halo around the sun that is 44 degrees in diameter.

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2010 - ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA - CIRROSTRATUS - CLOUD - EARTH - HALO - METEOROLOGY - PARHELION - SUN -