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Circumzenithal Arcs
- Oct 27, 2008

    Lunar Circumzenithal Arc. Lauri Kangas

    Diamond Dust CZA, Bogdan Kossewski

    New York CZA


Droplets, mist & fog - June 24, 2008

    Montana Fogbow, James Perdue


Sundogs, Parhelia - Rewritten Section, New Images - June 14, 2008

   Sundogs - Toronto,  Mark Trusz   

   How formed             Sun altitude             Colours - Mitsy Krzywicki

     Moondogs, Paraselenae

    Finland, Erkki Poikolainen        Cape Cod, Jim Kirk        Germany, Trish Fosbury

    Alaska, Nannette Timothy        Iceland, Ágúst Guðmundsson

    Canada, Lauri Kangas         Egypt, Aymen Ibrahem       Canada, David Hayes

   Arizona, Steve West       Romania, Alex Tudorica       Netherlands, Jan Eric Krikke

  San Francisco, Mila Zinkova




Rainbows - May 29, 2008

    Twinned primary, single secondary. Michael Großmann, Germany

    Primary Bow, Scottish Western Highlands

    Moonbow at Yosemite Falls with Reflection Bow in Yosemite Meadow


"Today's Feature" Archive - May 23

    Daily Feature complete collection


Multiple Halos ~ Parry & Lowitz arcs - April 26

    High sun arcs Israel - March 7 2007.   Pennina Neumann & Koby Harati


Multiple Halo Display - March 10

    Oslo Norway - December 16 2007



Moilanen arc - March 4

    Rare Moilanen arc imaged by Steinar Midtskogen during December '07 Oslo display


Nacreous Clouds - March 4

     Nacreous clouds light the twilight sky at Luleå, Sweden - Åke Svensson


Get News of Today's Feature - March 1, 2008

  Daily Features are available on an RSS feed which alerts to the latest version and lists earlier ones. Click here. Best viewed as Live Bookmarks in FireFox browser which shows the feature page with full formatting. Alternatively, Google Reader shows the images well. Thanks to Andrew Neitsch for the suggestion and writing the RSS generator.


Nacreous Clouds - February 24, 2008

    Geir Øye, Ørsta, Norway Feb 20         Phil & Jo Cooper, Icehotel, Kiruna, Swedish Lapland

      Gosia Budek, the great January Oslo display     Steinar Eliassen, Oslo, January '05


Multiple Halo Display - February 21, 2008

    A bright display seen over much of Northern and Central England - Imaged by Ray Martin


Parhelic Circle - Revised ice halo section with new images - February 19, 2008

    High sun parhelic circle over the Dead Sea by Koby Harati

  Halo of many paths          Low sun circle - Image by Marko Riikonen, South Pole

High sun circle     Grant Goodge, NC,USA       Damian Hutsemekers, ESO, La Silla, Chile
   

    Lawrence Hearn, BC, Canada           Andrew Pugh, BC, Canada      Ryan Skorecki, Alaska

     Parisian circles - Patrick Sogorb       Winter halos, Ontario, Canada - Angel Langmuir   


     Noel Dawson, NSW, Australia


Circumhorizon arc - February 12, 2008

    Nature dwarfs artifact over Pilesgrove, NJ. Image by Lisa Gonnelli.


Nacreous clouds over Ancient Burial Mound - Feb 12

    75 minutes after sunset on 25th Jan '08.   Hedmark County, SE Norway.   Imaged by Erik Aaseth.


Fogbows - Feb 10

    From a container ship in "Titanic waters" off Newfoundland. Image by Juerg Alean.

   Unusual bow with three supernumeraries, imaged by Larry Hall near Thompson, Manitoba, Canada.

   Fogbow, glory and Brocken Spectre, imaged by Mike Watson on Beinn Liath Mhor, NW Scotland.


Anticrepuscular rays

   Rays at Nubble Light, near York Beach, Maine imaged by Steve Kluge.

   Rays stream over Lhasa, Tibet - Imaged by Adolf Cortel


First ever images of the Kern Arc!

   
     Marko Mikkilä's historic Kern arc imaged at Sotkamo, Finland


Moondogs

   
Imaged near midnight on December 26, '07 above Snag, Yukon Territory, Canada by David Cartier


Sundog

   Sundog in fallstreaks imaged by Lauri Kangas, Ontario, Canada


Nacreous Clouds over Norway & Sweden 19-20th January 2008

                          
Oslo, Norway, Jan 20       Göteborg, Sweden Jan 19        Daylight clouds


Coronae

    Lunar, Ontario, Canada            Solar with iridescence
          

Fogbow & Glory

   Golden Gate Fogbow and glory imaged by Mila Zinkova
  

Iridescence

   Wave cloud iridescence

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