The photo above shows a bounty of colorful halos and arcs captured at Snowbird, Utah on December 14, 2013. Image © David Sharp;
These are nearby light pillars, a local phenomenon that can appear as a distant one, a column of light appearing to extend up from the
Rare but rewarding to see, a little rainbow off to the side of the Sun, such spectacles are known as sundogs, mock suns or parhelia.
Polar mesospheric clouds (noctilucent or “night shining” clouds) form between 76 to 85 kilometers (47 to 53 miles) above the Earth’s surface, near the boundary
A beautiful Sun Pillar over Sweden. When the air is cold and the Sun is rising or setting, falling ice crystals can reflect sunlight and
A halo around the Moon. This fairly common sight occurs when high thin clouds containing millions of millions tiny ice crystals cover much of the
The photo above showing a breathtaking Sun pillar was captured at sunset near Jenison, Michigan on April 10, 2012. Sun pillars result from the reflection
The photo above, snapped in Gulf Breeze, Florida on a chilly February afternoon, shows a colorful circumzenithal arc (CZA) and a much less frequently observed
This is a 22 degree lunar halo about a waxing, gibbous Moon, the constellation of Orion and a mid-winter landscape in the Fusch Valley of
This lunar halo, photographed in Greenland, where the skies are wonderful. Lunar halos are rare and can be seen anywhere where there’s very thin ice
