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Sun Halo

author: L.Laveder/Novapix

reference: t-met03-00024

Image Size 300 DPI: 32 * 43 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. Here is a circumscribed halo.
April 26 2008.

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2008 - ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA - CIRROSTRATUS - CLOUD - CONTRAIL - EARTH - HALO - METEOROLOGY - STREET LAMP - SUN -