Thursday, 31 May 2018

Odd radii halos outbreak in the Czech Republic



There was an odd radii halos outbreak in the Czech Republic and Hungary in the past few days.
Multiple rare halo forms were captured.
Let me show you some of the photos:

These were taken by Jiří Kaňovský from Černotín, Czech Republic:




He managed to capture 9° contact arcs, 9° parhelion and 24° parhelion among others. Uppercave Parry was captured, too.

These were taken by me:





I am very confused about the halo forms captured here. First I thought I captured 18° parhelions, but now it turns out those are probabaly 20° and also 35° column arcs. There is also a faint lower 23° parhelion. 9° contact arcs are possibly captured, too.
The sun was 62° high at the point of the photoshoot.
I managed to stack multiple photos and edit those in Photoshop to bring out the halo forms.
Can anyone confirm that those are indeed column arcs?

Here are some .NEFs (Nikon's RAWs) if you're interested:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArJV0E31n7WMg0jl3Lh02eZjZy0p