Moondogs near Mt Hekla,
Iceland imaged by Ágúst Guðmundsson on 21st March
'08. ©�g�st
Gu�mundsson,
shown with permission
Although the temperature was between -5 and -7°C there was
no diamond dust and Ágúst's many images
indicate that
crystals in high cirrus produced the display. In addition to the bright
moondogs a paraselenic circle courses through the 18° high moon. A
22° halo circles it topped by a lunar upper
tangent arc. That was not all, high
above was a lunar circumzenithal arc touched by either a rare 46° halo or supralateral arc. |