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   Alaskan Fata Morgana

   Cloud Bow, Scotland

   Crosses in the sky

   Ireland Halos

   Welsh rarebit, South Wales

   Glory on Snowdon, North Wales

   Swiss Halos

   Above Cloud Iridescence

   Crepuscular Rays, Greece

   Circumhorizon Arc

   Zodiacal Light

   Pelican Halo

   Pollen & Pollen Corona

   Butterflies & Bookcases - Structural Colour

   Crepuscular Rays

   Atomic Oxygen Aurora

   Bangkok Halos

   Labradorescence - Structural Colour

   Circumzenithal & supralateral arc, Bulgaria

   How far is the rainbow?

   Cloud Contrast Bows

   Rio Halos

   Thin Film Interference

   La Silla Green Flash

   Parry & Upper Tangent Arcs

   22 degree halo

   Colorado Wave Clouds

   Complete Parhelic Circle

   Paraglider Glory

   Holy Light

   Pillars Galore

   Distorted Moonrise, Greece

   Water Shadows

   CZA, Australia

   Aureoles, Sunsets and Ash

   Rainbow Story

   Lone Arc - Norway

   Quetelet Rings - Hungary

   More Eyjafjallajokull Effects

   Europe's Subtle Volcanic Skies - April 17, 2010

   Lunar Corona

   Phone Camera Triumph

   New Hampshire Lowitz Arcs

   Storm Bow, Texas

   STS 131 Clouds

   Zodiacal Light, Denmark

   Prarie Spokes

   Star Aureoles

   Tropospheric Bishop

   Lunar Elliptical Halo

   Bottlinger's Rings

   Disko Rays

   Crosswalk Opposition Effect

   Serengeti Pileus

   Antisolar Rays, Norway

   St Petersburg, Russia

   England Halos

   Spring's first pollen corona?

   Ice is blue

   Sundog

   Hyperbolic Halo

   Maine Full-Moon Rising

   New Hampshire Corona

   Sundog

   EU Halo Saturday

   Algal Optics

   When to see the Zodiacal Light

   Glider Optics

   Mars, Disk & Hole

   Frost

   Lamp fogbows & glories

   Russian Pillars

   Mountain Glory

   Glacier Melt Bow

   Far North Zodiacal Light

   Pillars at Trier

   Breaking the Ice - Interference in fissures

   Petal Caustics

   Lowitz in Antarctica

   Collisional Excitation

   Blue Airglow - UV Excitation

   Ice Castles ~ Superior Mirage/Fata Morgana

   Moondogs & Mars, New Zealand

   Cheshmeh-Ali, Iran

   Upper & Lower Pillars, Norway

   Church Window Patterns

   Strange European Sunsets

   Trondelag Bows

   Twilight rays, Hungary

   Fjiord Mirage

   Swedish Halo Display

   Fern frost on car bodywork

   Sun Pillar, New Jersey

   Blue Flash, California

   White Dogs and Blue Spots

   Digging for Halos

   Nokia Pillars

   Digging for Halos

   90 degree arcs

   Finland Snowflakes

   Snowflakes