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| Saskatchewan Halos Captured by Shelley Banks (site). Shelly Banks, shown with permission. |
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| A beautiful image showing ice halos as we more often see them. The familiar 22° radius halo circles the sun showing that tumbling cluster crystals were in the air. At its top is a hint of an upper tangent arc formed by hexagonal column crystals drifting with their long axes more or less horizontal. A UTA is very often evident as a brightening at the 22° halo's top. The picture is completed by a sundog or parhelion to the sun's left and right. |
