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   Lowitz and Parry Arcs

   Gobi Desert Glow

   Tiawan Brocken Spectre

   Red Upper Tangent Arc

   Earth Shadow

   Lunar Corona - Sweden

   Winter CZA

   Sky Wide Rays

   Greenland Subsun

   Vista House Corona

   Swedish Rare Halos

   Tin Hat Mirage

   Rainbow Caustics

   Manchester Halos

   Rime & Hexagons

   Moilanen Arc, Switzerland

   Stockholm Dawn Pillar

   Baltic Mirage

   Summer Halo in Winter

   Oval Venus Corona

   Maine Mirages

   Avebury Halos

   Glory Romania

   High Sun Parry Arcs

   Oslo Rarities

   Welsh Blue Flash

   Whale Caustics

   Trout & Optical Catastrophes

   Multiple Hole Punches

   Norway Rainbows

   White Parhelion

   Lighthouse Glasses

   Cape Cod Crepusculars

   Fuji Shadow

   Actic Fogbow

   Earth Shadow, California

   Greenland Ice Cap ~ Lunar Halos

   Flashes of Two Kinds

   Thailand Pyramidal Crystal Halos

   Ottawa Dawn Pillar

   Vienna Sundog Twins

   Linear Hole Punch?

   Glory & Brocken Spectre

   Sky and Earth Shadows, Indian Ocean

   Twinned Rainbow, England

   Another Peculiar Rainbow

   Twinned Rainbow - Michigan

   Rainbow Glints, Llanberis, Wales

   All 3 Lowitz Arcs, Netherlands

   Scottish Saltire, Loch Rannoch

   Lunar Fogbow + Jupiter Aureole

   Bozeman, Montana Iridescence

   Inverted Mountan Shadow

   Car Headlamp Fogbows

   Near & Far, Australia

   Contrail Parhelion

   Scientists & Sea Shells

   Jovian Puzzle

   Anticrepuscular Rays, New Jersey

   Iridescent Pileus

   Mirage Anatomy

   Lunar Halo, Norway

   Omaha, Nebraska All Sky Rays

   Santa Maria Shadow

   Norway Lenticular Clouds

   Belfry and Lunar 22-degree Halos

   TNG Fogbow

   Fall Streaks

   New Mexico Pillar

   Maryland Mirages

   BC, Canada Lower Parry Arc

   Iridescent Fractus

   Zero and higher orders

   Parry Kaleidoscope

   Prague Halos

   Dakota Badlands Pillar

   Lone Upper Tangent Arc

   Pollen & Corona

   Rays & Colours

   Denmark's 1st August 2010 Halos

   Giant Lily & Sun Corona

   Trees & Shadow Hiding

   Dawn Anticrepusculars, Australia

   ISS & Corona

   Ice

   Macchu Picchu Glory

   Noctilucent Clouds, Russia

   Venus Pillar

   Rare for some - UK Circumhorizon Arc

   Oregon Rarities

   Perfect Circumscribed Halo

   Eclipse Iridescence

   120 degree parhelion

   Coffee Filter Iridescence

   Wales Pyramidal Halo

   3 in 1

   NLCs Europe

   Zambia Iridescence

   NLCs Southern England

   Always search for it

   High sun parhelic circle

   California Contraill Colours

   Downward Rays, Hungary

   Norway Boy & Halo

   Alaskan Fata Morgana