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Sun Halo

author: L.Laveder/Novapix

reference: t-met03-00022

Image Size 300 DPI: 19 * 29 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. A circumscribed halo is also visible towards top left.
April 26 2008.

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2008 - ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA - BOAT - CIRROSTRATUS - CLOUD - EARTH - HALO - METEOROLOGY - SUN -