The Halo Vault

Here are some nice ice halos at the passage of a particular layer of clouds, during a clear sky day (2023-04-04, from near Dole, Jura, Franc...

Seems like the rare halos keep coming. While visiting my brother and his family I was outside his house watching this halo complex evolve. I...

Kimmo Laitinen captured a nice display with Wegener arcs and a really strong lower tangent arc on the 2nd September 2017. I'll let Kim...

In this post, I'm including the most interesting displays observed during the last month. 14th March 2017 On that day, halos app...

In the afternoon of 26 March, 2017, I was spending time outdoors with my family and wasn't too well equipped for serious observing. Of c...

Halo phenomena in Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus , Bk. 1, Ch, 14. Image from www.avrosys.nu The Swedish Olaus Magnus’s 16 t...

In the evening, I looked at meteoblue's meteogram (like I do everyday), and saw on it plenty of high-level clouds, but at the same ti...

On January 21st, after a long stretch of not getting any significant halos and not too long after observers in Hungary got a spectacular di...

Here is some more material from the diamond dust in Rovaniemi three nights ago. After the heaviest Parry-crystal bombarding was over, Moil...

After over 90 days of above 90 degree temps and no halos this half-way decent display shows itsself in high clouds. Upon leavi...