The Halo Vault

Around 19:51 (UTC+8) on 4 June 2026, the RedNote user "岚烟喵喵喵" (ID:6109395002) photographed a bright divergent-light 22° halo at Qi...

Often, when I see the clouds coming from west , I try to do a high cloud sunset to see if there is something to see (like sun pillar and sun...

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...

The display occurred on 18 of March and I observed it from Vilnius, Lithuania. For the whole day, cirrostratus clouds covered the entire sky...

Photo by: Károly Tuszinger - Budapest, Hungary (single frame) Despite the government’s efforts to stop “invaders” at the border, a ...

Every frame of animation is stack which covers 2,5 min. Colored version is here At the begining of the display, beautiful cirrus covere...

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...

About an hour before midday a layer of cirrus stratus clouds began moving toward the sun and I looked up and saw a colorful 22d halo and I n...

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

Before leaving for work I saw some decent cirrus clouds and looked up and saw 22d halo complete circumscribed halo and sharp 9d halo and tak...

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