The Halo Vault

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...

Each frame of animation covers ten minutes There were not rare halos during the display, exept for a weak upper 23° plate arc and a 9° ...

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...

The etching shown above is based on the drawing of Austrian mountaineer, cartographer and landscape artist, Julius von Payer, and was...

On January 21st, after a long stretch of not getting any significant halos and not too long after observers in Hungary got a spectacular di...

In 2017, halo activity in my part of the United Kingdom has so far been very quiet with not much to get excited about apart from the occa...

average stack of 15 frames In the morning after new year's night, I noticed through a window cirrus clouds, and I went to observe....

On the 19th October 2013 Zbyněk Černoch was in Salzburg keeping an eye for halo events, since high cirrostratus clouds were rolling in. As t...

January 16 brought a whole-day high-cloud display to the greatest part of Hungary. The morning started with a spectacular sunpillar with bri...

After over 90 days of above 90 degree temps and no halos this half-way decent display shows itsself in high clouds. Upon leavi...

12th August 2007 - This day I can see interesting halo display. I thought that I could see upper tangent arc and inexpressive 22 degre...

The halo-season in Hungary has began in a very promising way. There were two particularly noteworthy displays this week.  The first...

On August 28th anthelic arcs appeared in the northern part of Finland. My coffee break was suddenly halted as watching from the window I n...

After weeks of seeing no nice halo displays I was at work today on breaktime and I saw 22 halo and upper 22 deg tangent arc. I put my su...

Throughout my work day there were a number of halos that were coming and going. Around midday there was 22d halo, circumscribed halo, p...

On January 26, 2007, Claudio Martinez watched and photographed a complex diamond dust halo display at the Baqueira Ski Station in the Sp...

Jaakko Tähti photographed this moderate display with Moilanen arc on 12. January 2007 in Viitasaari. "The halo display lasted for a...

Little after midnight on the night of 5-6th January a fairly bright 22 halo and upper tangent arc appeared in high clouds. At this stage n...

In the evening of 4 November this lunar display graced the sky soon after sunset. Among the halo forms observed are the rare heliac arc, Tap...