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 Glory & Brocken Spectre, Ireland

 Four days in the life of a proton

 Monnbows, Halo, Volcano, Stars - Hawaii

 Rainbow Colours

 Classical Green Flash

 Soap Films

 It's Grim up North

 Twin Sisters Circumhorizon Arc

 Sugar Mountain Glories

 Flickering Sirius

 Water Aureole, Wales

 Indonesia Optics

 Pine Pollen Corona

 Noctilucent Clouds

 Superior mirage/Fata Morgana, Bay of Fundy, Canada

 High Sun Antisolar Rays, Shetland

 Contrail Iridescence

 Feather Iridescence

 East Coast Halos

 Diamond Dust Subsun Video

 Moiré Patterns & Fringes

 Atmospheric Optics Refreshment

 Cuba Ice Halos

 Scottish Halos

 Contrail Shadow & Iridescence

 Infralateral Arc

 Antisolar Rays

 Fogbow with Supernumeraries, Finland

 Lunar Halo Display, Poland

 Oval & Not So Oval Aureoles

 Perspectives on Mountain Shadows

 24° Column Arc, Poland

 California Iridescence

 Belarus Elliptical

 Hannover Elliptical Halo

 A Year of Sunsets

 Stockholm Spring Sunsets

 Earth's Shadow, ESO Paranal Observatory

 Interplanetary Scattering

 Doomsday Ellipse

 Droplet Caustics

 Winter Sunset, Stockholm, Sweden

 Airglow at Paranal Observatory

 Moon Illusion, Ireland

 Ships & Mirages

 Pillars & Subsuns

 Circumscribed Halo, Ireland

 Lunar Corona, Finland

 Circumzenithal Arc, Henley, UK

 Multiple Inferior Mirage Images

 Ground Halo, Norway

 Mackinac Bridge Mirage

 Deceptive Ray - Melbourne, Australia

 1988 Lowitz Arcs

 Order & Disorder, Swiss Alps

 Lowitz & Parry Arcs, Georgia, USA

 Brocken Spectre, Ireland

 Oval Star Aureoles, M42

 Multiple Seconday Supernumeraries

 Light Columns, Hungary

 Fish World

 Anomalous Rainbow

 Corona and Iridescence

 Jupiter Corona, Aldebaran Aureole

 Niagara Night Rainbows

 Nacreous vs Ordinary Iridescent Clouds

 Oslo Halos

 Greenland Fogbow

 Ice

 Swiss Halos

 Sun Pillar, Norway

 Coloured Clouds, Poland

 Pillar

 Anomalous Rainbows

 Odd & Even Display

 Window Reflections

 The Refracted Otter

 Eclipse Optics, Shadow Bands

 Sweden Halos

 Ground Rainbows, Sweden

 Strange Road Mirage

 Peruvian Rainforest Halos

 Full Moon & Shadow Hiding

 Stress & Strain

 Solar Corona

 Topology & Mirages

 Lowitz visits UK

 What is it?

 Queen of Halos

 Elusive Backscattering

 Laboratory Rainbows

 Greenland Halos

 Alaska High Temperature Arc

 Tre Kronor & 22° Halo

 Cloud Top Flashes

 Glory in the Field

 Bead Bow Recipes

 Siberian Optics

 Stratospheric Anticrepuscular Rays

 Fata Pelicana

 London Paralympics Halos

 Lowitz Arc, California

 Airplane Glory

 Dettifoss, Iceland

 Forbidden Radiation, Hungary

 Stacked Blue Moons, Argentina

 Cloud Rays & Shadows

 Rays

 Bows & Polarization

 NW England Halos

 Blue & White Sky

 Sea Shell Colours

 Zodiacal Light, Australia

 Omega Mirages

 Ice & Water

 Antactica, 50 years ago

 Tubes

 Crescent Suns

 Mirages & Sunspots

 Red Rainbow Disk

 Half Sky Shadow

 Prismatic Doors

 360° Hosepipe Bow

 Pastoral Paraselene, Shropshire, England

 Lunar CZA and Noctilucent Clouds, Germany

 Mock-Mirage - Multiple Suns

 Double Pollen Corona

 Bubbles

 Moon & Fogbow, Poland

 Circumhorizon Arc

 Red Flash

 NLCs - Hungary

 Secondary Supernumeraries

 Precious Opal

 Atmospheric Refraction - Venus

 4 ships

 Celestial Torc

 River Danube Flood?

 Strange Shadows

 Leafy Pinhole Cameras

 Peacock Colours - Photonic Crystals

 Sea Caustics

 Halos - Greenland

 New Zealand Moonrise Mirage

 Canada Halos

 "Superior" Superior Mirage

 Bent Rainbow

 Flatirons, Colorado Iridescence

 Rides & Halos on the Greenland Ice Cap

 Rainbow & Zero Order Glow

 Viking Sunstone?

 Siding Spring Optics

 Book - Polarized Light in Nature

 22 & 46° Frozen Lake Halos

 Factory Glory

 Aconcagua Skies

 Aureoles Small & Large

 Summer Halo

 Rings of Two Kinds

 Idaho Glory

 Spider Web Light Rings

 Corona & Babinet

 Pillars & Subsuns - Germany

 Quételet rings from Venus & Jupiter

 Near Sky

 Zodiacal Light - Dust, Planets, Fire, Stars

 Moon & Rainbow, Reunion Island

 Butterflies & Waves

 Kievan Elliptical Halo

 High Sun Halo - Ecuador

 Prism HD

 Corona & Iridescence

 Subsun Streaks

 Rainbow Trails

 Sunrise Mirage

 Sub-Anthelic Diffraction Pillar

 Winter Rays

 Kite Opposition Effect

 Lunar Elliptical Halos & Paraselenic Circle

 Lunar Halos

 Sub Horizon Lowitz Arcs

 NW England Halos

 Wales Mountain Halos

 Meat Iridescence

 Elliptical Halo & Moilanen Arc

 Enigmatic Ovals

 Southerly Aurorae

 Glories of Sky Diving

 Indoor Rainbows

 Nacreous Clouds - Sweden

 Lunar Alpine Halo

 Spider Silk Colours

 3D Contrail Shadow

 Crossed Contrails

 Crescent Corona

 Crystal Halos - Poland




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