The Halo Vault

On 6th February 2021 I noticed a nice 2 o'clock spot outside the 22° halo in the sky. I succeeded to take a stack of 40 photos in 4 min...

Moments before sunset on June 17 2020, a high quality odd-radius plate display with bright and vivid 28° arcs was documented by multiple obs...

Two rounds of week-long odd-radii outbreaks swept across southern China in July and August. The second outbreak turned out to be the more no...

On July 1st, skywatcher Luo Wuping captured a decent odd radius plate display during sunset hours from Changsha, Hunan Province, China. ...

The 1997 Lascar display ( http://www.thehalovault.org/ 2008/12/lascar-display.html ) opened the door to a world of exotic halos. Halo res...

On the evening of Sep 5, 2018, an odd-radius plate display of great significance was captured in Haikou, China, by photographer Zhan Guor...

The halos I got earlier today ended at midday but while up mowing the ATV and foot trails I saw halos reappearing! I immediately saw a nice...

Here is a photo of a diamond dust odd radius display in the spotlight beam. Of the less commonly seen halos visible are lower 20° and u...

There is no denying it - stacked and unsharp masked halo image can be rather ugly. Ground objects are blurred and horizon is coated with b...

35° plate arc in lower center, 24° plate arc above it and slightly to the right, and faint infralateral arc (?) at far left. The angular d...