High Sun Parhelic Circle - Taken by Pete Burgess near Manchester, England. The parhelic circle with its lack of colour is often missed. Here there are perhaps some colour traces at its edges due to iridescence. The lower image shows a characteristically slanting high sun sundog. ©Pete Burgess, shown with permission.
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