Supralateral arc!

I captured a mini display with a sundog, CZA, 22° halo, UTA, and a supralateral arc. Later I also got a nice 22° halo. Last night I also got a lower moon pillar, but didn't get a picture.

See the arc in the center?

Christmas CZA

I got treated with a beautiful CZA on Christmas.

CZA behind some altocumulus

120 degree parhelion & Parhelic circle

I got to see a 120 degree parhelion today. It was the only halo in the sky at the moment, so you should always look all around the sky! Later I saw a parhelic circle segment. There was a mixture of natural cirri and contrails, a sundog showed up in the contrails, but it was not a good one. Contrails just never seem to have those good orientations!

120 degree parhelion

Faint parhelic circle, its in the middle of the image.

Update: Later in the evening there was a faint circumzenith arc and a bright sundog. The sundog was hard to photograph, a lot of trees around here!

 

Rare halo display in Fall

I observed a spectacular halo display the 12th of November. You can see this display on OpticsPOD, this post just has more pictures of the halos.

The halos observed were:

• 22 degree halo
• Sundog
• Circumzenith arc
• Upper tangent arc/circumscribed halo
• Parry arc
• Parhelic circle
• 120 degree parhelion
• Supralateral arc
• Infralateral arc
• 46 degree halo
• Lowitz arc
• Wegener arc

Displays like this will happen, as long as you keep looking for them!

Parhelic circle

Infralateral arc (look carefully!)

Upper tangent, Parry, and Lowitz arcs. This halo

was much brighter than appears in the image.

Wegener arc, the image has been unsharp masked

so the rare halo shows up more clearly.

Later in the day, a CZA and supralateral

arc appeared in the sky.