The Halo Vault

Hello everyone, after several talks with Alec, I decided to make some digging into my old odd radius halos displays to search for rare halos...

Sunshine has been a rare phenomenon in Finland this winter. On 16th January, the sky was finally clear and temperature had dropped to -25°C,...

On the 5th April 2018, there was a short lived but rather nice odd radius display in Bolton, a town situated in the north west of the Unite...

On 4th March Jitka R. from the Czech republic captured this magnificent odd radius display on the Moon. After stacking multiple image...

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 want to share some of my observations from last month, which I made in St Petersburg (from 15th April to 5th May) and in Psk...

This display occurred on 22th February 2017 in Izborsk (Pskov region, Russia). In the morning it was sunny and the first cirrus started ...

Yesterday in St Petersburg was an odd radius display with a predominance of plate forms. The morning was cloudy. Around 11-30 sky sta...

A funny coincidence that a halo-observer may want to experience is travelling to Egypt and seeing some pyramidal crystal hal...

In June when conditions for observing halos aren’t fine because of low full moon elevation, I have had my best observation ever. On cirros...

A horrendously quiet April passed by without any noteworthy action (except Jarmo's fantastic bolide halo). Halo people were awakened f...

During the Czech halo observers meeting in Kuncice, high clouds created some good displays. This odd radius halo complex was seen on 14....

This image was taken in Fukushima pref. in Japan, by Mr. Tasan (handle), May 5, 2006. There are two halos -- the lower one seems a 22 de...

A long-lasting halo display was seen in Southern Finland on 25th April. The gems of the display were odd radius column arcs, of which 9, ...