Not two but three halos!
The last two days have been great for atmospheric optical phenomena. Today's bright halo ws actually three. Just as I mentioned yesterday, most people only noticed the bright 22 degree halo, but as the previous image shows, a rare 9 degree halo was visible for those who knew enough to look for it. This image shows the 22 degree halo along with a the much fainter, but also rare 46 degree halo. 46 degree halos only appear about 2% of the time you can see the 22 degree halo. They are formed by the same hexagonal ice crystals that form the 22s but the light exits them at a different angle. Canon 20D - 1/1000th, 20mm @ f/10, ISO 100
posted by Richard at 5:37 PM
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Nice collection of halo photos! I looked more closely at my other halo shots and didn't see the 9 degree halo at all. The 22 degree halo was probably about as bright as I've ever seen it today.
I guess there was only a small amount of the pyramidal crystals. These two shots were taken at the peak of brightness for me, so possibly all of the effects were related.
The upper halo is a circumscribed halo produced by column crystals with their axes horizontal.
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/circum.htm
The lower halo is a circumhorizon arc
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/cha.htm
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