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Sun halo over Mexico

Added	Sun, 24/05/2020
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Sat, 23/05/2020
Версии	Halo

Residents and guests of resorts in the state of Quintana Roo (Mexico) watched a beautiful celestial phenomenon of a solar halo.

It can be seen in Playa del Carmen, cancún and Puerto Morelos. Amazing beauty of halo took video from different angles in the North-East of Yucatan.

Halos appear around the Sun, the moon and other strong light sources. All types of halo caused by the refraction of light by ice crystals in Cirrus clouds in the upper troposphere (at a height of 5 to 10 km). The differences caused by the shape and difference in the arrangement of the crystals.

The brightest are considered Parghelia and the Zenith of the arc, there are also 22 - and 46-degree arc, arc, Perry, antelia, parentalia, colasante arc tangent of small and large halo, etc. While in halo you can often see a rainbow because the crystals refracted light turns into a spectrum. However, the color is almost impossible to discern in the moon halo — this is due to twilight vision.

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