A solar halo around the Sun on Jan 3, 2014 at the end of my snowy country road. A colored upper tangent arc is visible off the faint 22° halo.
A solar halo around the Sun on Jan 3, 2014 at the end of my snowy country road. A colored upper tangent arc is visible off the faint 22° halo and faint parhelia are on either side of the Sun.
Sundogs and a solar halo around the Sun, December 19, 2013, shot from home with the Canon 60Da and 10-22mm lens. The halo is caused by ice crystals in the air, in this case very nearby as they can be seen as "stars" sparkling in the sunlight in the sky and in the foreground. This is an HDR stack of three exposures at 2/3rds stop intervals, processed thru Photomatix Pro.
