Monday 9 June 2008

5 June odd radius display in Southern Finland

A major pyramidal crystal display was observed on 5 June in Southern Finland. The center of the action was located in Tampere, where the photo above was taken by Jari Luomanen.

Several people noticed the display and photographic documentation is extensive. For more photos, browse the messages of our mailing list ( 1 ), starting from 05.06.2008.
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13 comments:

  1. Ágnes / Ági9 June 2008 at 14:08

    This is an incredible display, and the images are breathtaking. Mother Nature did it again.

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  2. Francesco9 June 2008 at 15:45

    my god, this picture is amazing! perfection ...

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  3. Patrik Trncak9 June 2008 at 20:20

    Monster brutal giant great amazing beautiful halo display! Best of odd radius.

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  4. Michael Ellestad10 June 2008 at 17:04

    Just amazing to see 8 halos at once!! I can only dream about something like that but one day I may see something like it. This is the best odd radius I have seen and this should be in the next halo book

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  5. Kuba10 June 2008 at 17:22

    Fantastic display !!!

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  6. Francesco10 June 2008 at 18:35

    I am really shocked by this image ... but is it the only picture of the display? At the bottom of the fourth arc it looks that something is going on, am I wrong? Congratulations anyway!

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  7. Ágnes / Ági10 June 2008 at 18:38

    Click on the image, Francesco, and you'll see the other images by Jari.

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  8. Jukka11 June 2008 at 08:26

    The display was truly stunning. I was on the phone with Jari and Marko several times during the day discussing the evolution of the display. In Riihimäki the peak wasn't as hard as in Tampere, but still worth a look: Photos of the display.

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  9. marko16 June 2008 at 17:27

    I was already having my best ever odd radii in Lahti, but talking with Luomanen in the phone it became clear that he had something way better. Conserning the pyramid circular halos, it is difficult to imagine how this display could be topped.

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  10. Ismo Luukkonen21 June 2008 at 12:05

    Some 05/06/08 pictures also in my site:

    http://personal.inet.fi/koti/luuk3/halot/halovalo/index1.html

    Nice odd-radii display in Turku as well, but still nothing compared to the clarity of the Tampere display.

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  11. marko riikonen23 June 2008 at 17:41

    Thanks Veikko. We were busy at the time of this posting, that's why the minimum effort solution.

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  12. Gunther Konnen30 July 2008 at 21:54

    Visser claimed at the time (1940s) the existence of supernumerary halos, radii 18 and 19.5 deg. These were observed in 1905 and 1916, by Hissink and Barlow, respectively. In my view, there is no doubt that those halos consist of the same halos as the one seen here -- only the interpretation was wrong. Visser even calculated from the distances of these 'supernumerary halos' the size of the crystals; by accident the result was not too far off from what we nowadays know. Looking to this picture, I can quite understand that Visser (and others) were deceived in that direction.

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  13. Jari4 June 2009 at 20:43

    Gunther, thank you for providing this interesting point!

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