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Sun halo from "diamond dust"

Added	Sat, 09/12/2017
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Sat, 09/12/2017
Версии	Halo

Ski resort — one of the best places to see sun halos. These rings and pillars of light surround the sun when the air is filled with ice crystals. The most amazing halo created by the crystals called "diamond dust". Thursday, December 7, Cameron Barges saw this splendor, when skiing in Whitefish in the U.S. state of Montana.

"When we took the lift and went towards the clouds, before us shone the various types of halo! It was simply unforgettable!", says the Barges.

Ordinary solar halo formed by ice crystals floating in high-altitude Cirrus clouds. Seeing halos, on the contrary, formed by ice crystals near the earth, raised in the air, skiers and snow machines. If you look closely at the picture, you can see in the air a little sparkle. This sparkling crystals "diamond dust", giving the halos a special beauty.

Cameron documented rare variety of forms: 22-degree and 46-grustnoe halo, lower sun pillar, about the sun, upper tangent arc, arc oconostota, incomplete prelicence circle and others.

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