Giant eyes in the sky over Africa

You never know what you'll encounter when going on an African Safari. "Last week I was driving through the national Park in Botswana, and while the rest of the men in the car followed the Bush to see lions and leopards, I looked at the sky, where shone a sun halo. It was like a giant eye looking down on us. I've never seen anything like it," says George Kourounis.

Such halos are formed by light passing through ice crystals in high Cirrus clouds. Refracting sunlight crystals shaped like pencils — long, thin and with six sides. In the photo are 22-degree circular halo, halo opoaryuse and part parheliacal full circle.

Some people think that the ice halo is rare for Africa, but it is not. At an altitude of 10 km the air is cold as everywhere else.

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