The Halo Vault

Veit has sent this odd radius halo from southern Germany. He took the photos on 2 April 2012 at 10:48 CEST. More of his halo images cane be ...

On the morning of 25th January 2012, I observed a large halo display near Achsheim, a little village north of Augsburg/Bavaria/Germany (450m...

In the afternoon of October 14, I observed a large halo display in Bochum, Germany. It started at 14.25 CET (15.25 CEST) with circumzenitha...

I took these pictures during the beginning of a flight from Paris to Washington DC on the 18th of September. It shows the subanthelic area. ...

These pyramidal crystal halos were observed by Anthelene over Sakaiminato city in West Japan. The most interesting features of this high clo...

Andreas Zeiske observed a pyramidal halo on 6 June 2011 in Frankfurt am Main. In the images, the 22° halo, 18° halo and the left 18° lateral...

The blog on atmospheric optics has moved to a new address ( 1 ), and has recently been updated with many interesting observations. As a tea...

The above image was photographed by Pitan Singhasaneh on 5 June in Bangkok, Thailand.

On 4 June 2011 Pietari Puranen observed these rainbows in Jyväskylä. When he turned around to see the sky around the sun, he observed an upp...

On May 1st 2011 cumulonimbus clouds precipitating hail were commmon. These clouds exhibited clear praecipitatio and later in the evening the...

This Liljequist superparhelia was observed in the spotlight beam on 5 January 2011. The lamp is about a degree or two below the horizon, thu...

Finnish Atmospheric optics enthusiasts met on 27-29 May 2011 in the Artjärvi observation centre. The topics of the presentations varied from...

Midday Altocumulus move thru the area and while passing through, I get a fine corona around the sun and later on lenticular cloud formation...

Nick Beck has sent this high cloud halo display that he observed on Christmas eve in Florida. The sun elevation was 31 degrees when it start...

On 13 December it was cold and windy on Mt. Wendelstein (1838m) in the German Alps with temperature of -17°C and huminity over 90%. The whol...

The halo was observed in Brandbergen 20 km south of Stockholm Sweden. Time for the display was 1-dec-10 9:50 - 10:50 AM. There were snow gun...

On 27.11.2010 from 09.30 till 13.30 CET Claudia and Wolfgang Hinz could observe the depicted halo phenomena, comprising not less than 22 typ...

It's better to be inside a punch hole cloud than just look at it. On the night of 17/18 November snow guns seeded a punch hole in low st...

The display was seen at and/or just after high noon from eastern Nebraska about 41 degrees north, on November 7. My sister had called about...

On 18 October 2010 a superb diamonddust halodisplay was observed at the meteorological station Sonnblickobservatorium ( 1 ) in the Austrian...