The Halo Vault

On May 8, strange elliptical halos were captured by Pipibun in Kunimi, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. At 14:30 that day, there were cirrus and...

I was outside working on the day of the Winter Solstice and saw AC clouds coming in and I anticipated elliptical halo and got my camera gear...

Elliptical halo today. First one of the 2019 halo season. I saw a gap in the AC clouds and I got into position and it formed out of crystals...

Following hard on the heels of Michael Ellestad's recent elliptical halo sighting, we have this little gem observed by Mirko Lahtinen in...

Following my recent  observation of subparhelia and sub-PHC on the car windshield earlier in the week, yesterday I had another great catch....

Today on 21st October at 11:27 local time I saw this elliptical halo above Vecsés, Hungary. I was photographing Ac len and iridescent Ac c...

14 August 2007 - At the edge of a large, smooth-structured Altocumulus bank, elliptical halos appeared at 1100, and from 1113 to 1120 UT...

To help overcome our dearth of halos, here is another archive picture. It was taken in the morning over Iberian Peninsula in April 1997 b...

Predominantly incomplete but brightly coloured elliptical halos over Deventer, the Netherlands on Sunday 23/4. The display occurred in tw...

Elliptical halo appeared in the skies today on 26. March 2006. This was one of those rare long lasting displays, with almost an hour dura...

During the last days series of reasonable displays developed over Southern Finland. Three of them were in moonlight an...

At 13.03.2006 accumulate a diamond dust on the 1835m high top of the German mount Wendelstein above a 1400m...

This years first elliptical halo was seen on 4. February by Mika Aho in Muurame. The picture here shows fuzzy upper part of t...

Here's my elliptical halos I got for 2005 . The first one was Feb 15th 2005 and the second Dec 17th 2005 .