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 Crystal Halos - Poland

 Glory & Brocken Spectre - Turkey

 Sweden Halos

 Three Suns - Northern Mongolia

 Twilight Arch & Earth's Shadow

 Sundog Reflections - Skypools

 Reflections on Sundogs

 Cloudbow & Glory - Greenland

 Eclipse Night Venus Pillars

 Green Flashes of Two Types

 Glory

 Road Sign Optics

 Lebanon Spotlights

 Sun Pillar - Southern Urals, Russia

 Magellan & Airglow

 Tropical Iridescent Cloud

 La Cassiopea & Caustics

 NY Circumzenithal Arc

 Florida Halo Display

 Fogbow & Supernumeraries

 Primary Bow

 Cloud Mountain

 Cape Town Antisolar Rays

 Moonlight Rays, Stars, Lightning

 Kitchen Optics & Light Rings

 Optics Galore

 Multiple Supernumeraries

 Multiple Contrail Shadows

 Bouguer's Halo

 Contrast Illusion

  Lunar 22° Halo, Hawaii

  Primary & Secondary Moonbows, Ireland

  Waterfall Sea, Alderney

  Greenland Halos

  London Rainbows

  Greenland Ice Cap Optics

  Norwegian Aurorae

  Infrared Rainbow

  Bent Glitter Paths

  Red Arrows & Shifting Sundogs

  Classical Bows at Grand Canyon

  Moon, Rain, Stars & Fire

  Earth's Shadow - Turkey

  Greenland Glory

  Colours?

  Strider Caustics

  Year's first sunrise - Svalbard

  Ice Cap Halos - Greenland

  Reflection Bows

  Veszprem Rainbows

  Tonga Green Flashes

  Banded Airglow

  Hungarian Dog

  Canine Skies

  Vocanic Sunsets from Africa

  Diamond Dust Lower Pillar

  Secondary Bow Supernumerary

  Intense Iridescence

  Fluctuating Star Colours

  Adularescence

  Tulip Field Bows

  All-Sky NLCs, Finland

  California Halos

  Crossed Bows

  Sahaha Bishops Ring/Aureole

  Absent Aureole - Clean Air

  Stratospheric Aerosol - New Zealand

  Plasma - Lightning Spectra

  Antisolar Rays

  Miraged Clouds

  Linear Hole Punch

  Flight Optics

  Night Shining Clouds, Denmark

  'Old Fog' Fogbow, Greenland

  Atlantis Space Shuttle Glory

  Pollen Corona, Finland

  Looming, Towering, Green Flash

  Upper & Lower Pillars

  Errant Ski-Slope

  Lunar Circumhorizon Arc

  Circumscribed Halo, Finland

  Near Sun Iridescence

  Mountain Rays

  Rainbow Shadows, Wales

  Mountain Shadow, Germany

  Iceland Rainbows

  Melting Radio Telescope

  Glows opposite the sun

  New Halo Book

  European rarity

  Hole in the sky?

  Circumhorizon arcs - Wisconsin

  High sun lower Parry arc - Florida

  Subsun

  Alphabet Soup

  Corpuscles & Waves, Fredericton, NB, Canada

  Twin Halos

  Start of NLC season

  Michigan Corona

  Norway Rainbow

 Nepal Lunar Rays

  Nepal Rays

 Upper & Lower Sun Pillar

  Two Summer Arcs - South Korea

  Bubble Optics

  Norway Sundog

  Tuscany Light

  Sea Water Bows - Blowhole Bow - Ireland

  Sea Water Bows - Bondi Beach, Australia

  New Zealand Halos - To enhance or not?

   Ice Corona?

   Asymmetric Opposition Glow

   Winter Halos

   Flattened Sun

   Alaskan Skies

   Diamond Dust Display

   Frost Dendrites

   Of still ponds and dusty windows

   Protractor Strains

   Halos at 34000 feet

   Breath Iridescence

   Atlantic Ocean Halos

   Cloud Forest Bow

   Lowitz and Parry Arcs

   Eiger Banner Cloud

   Swiss Diamond Dust

   Montana Halos

   Californian Mock-Mirage

   Twin Crescents, California

   Calgary Pillars

   Opposition Streak

   Mountain Shadow Spikes

   Alpine Sun Pillar

   Blue Ridge Mountains Haze

   Spanish Diamond Dust Halos

   Jupiter Corona/Aureole

   Ground Halo, Germany

   Diffracted Sunlight

   Belt of Venus, Turkey

   Yosemite Lowitz Arcs

   Finland Elliptical Halos

   Ice Crystal Colours

   Wednesday's Fogbow

   Christmas Glory

   Light Pillars near St Petersburg

   Moonrise over Lower Tatras

   Wave Clouds, Coronna & Iridescence

   44 degree parhelion?

   Moonbow, New Zealand

   Swiss Alps Halos

   Skypools on Walker Pond

   Dramatic Rays

   Greenland Nacreous Clouds

   Corona & Pleiades

   Aircraft Iridescence

   Rainbow Colours - Grand Canyon, USA

   Eclipse Corona, Hungary

   Cluster Crystals

   Caustic Diffraction

   Gobi Desert Glow

   Tiawan Brocken Spectre







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