OpticsPOD Archive - Ice Halos

Last updated on September 16, 2023

Light Pillar over Etna, Sicily, Italy

White Parhelion, Orkney, Scotland

Pillars of the Sky

Ground Halo, Scotland

Rare Halos, Sweden

Lunar Halos, Sweden

Ski-slope Rare halos, Vermont, USA

Rare Halos, Sweden

Warsaw Halos, Poland

Modest Sundog, England

Industrial Sundog, Hungary

Middle Lowitz Arc, Sweden

Circumzenithal Arc, California, USA

Halos from Wobbly Crystals, Calgary, Canada

Moon Halos, Norway

Pyramidal Crystal Column Arcs, Poland

Wegener Arcs, Scotland

Halo Geometry, Northern Ireland

Perfect 22 degree halo, Nova Scotia, Canada

Divergent light pillars from column crystals, Finland

Edinburgh Halos, Scotland

Halos, Florida, USA

Pyramidal Plate Arcs, Canada

Fire & Ice, Light Pillars, Sicily, Italy

Two-State Pyramidal Crystal Halo Display, USA

Ojos del Salado skies, Chile

Very Rare Swedish Halos

Some Halo History, Greeks to Scientific Revolution

Odd pyramidal halos, Botswana

Tall and bright pillar, Barcelona, Spain

Perfect Lower Tangent Arc, Italy

Halos & The Myth of Ixion

Florida Keys Sundogs

Lunar Lowitz Halos, Finland

Order from Disorder, Switzerland

Light Pillars with a difference, Sweden

Alamut Castle Light Pillars, Iran

Greenland Halos

Mystery Bright Spot, England

1979 Lowitz Observation, USA

All day halos, Sweden

High Altitude Halos, USA

Nova Scotia Halos, Canada

Lower Parry Arc, Finland

Circumhorizon Arc, USA

Pillar, North Carolina, USA

Parhelic Circle, three perspectives, Arizona, USA

Above Horizon Subparhelion, Chile

Bullet Rosettes & 22 degree Halos

Lunar Halos, Illinois, USA

The Elusive 120° Parhelion, The Netherlands

Lowitz Arcs, France

Moon & Venus Pillars, Japan

Lunar Elliptical Halo, Vermont, USA

Moilanen Arc & Ski Resorts, USA

Halos & How to Spot Them, England

Town Map in the Sky, Finland

Light Pillars, Inner Mongolia, China

Sunvex Arcs, Finland

Sun & Moon Halos, Greece

Samos Optics, Greece

Parry & Upper Tangent Arcs, The Netherlands

Lunar Circumhorizon Arc, Oregon, USA

Jackson Hole, Wyoming Halos, USA

Vertical & Sideways Light Columns, Sweden

Rare arcs cross-cross over Northern Sweden

Swedish Halos

Lunar Halos, England

Shetland Halos, Scotland

Dogs, Pillars and Glitter Paths, England

Night's Candles, Argentina

120° Parhelion & Parhelic Circle. North Carolina, USA

Parhelic Circle & Sundog, England

Blood Red Sword, Wales

Circumhorizon Arc, California, USA

Antarctic Lunar Halo & Snow

Circumscribed Halo, The Netherlands

Wegener Arcs over Delft, The Netherlands

Wegener Arcs & Parhelic Circle, The Netherlands

High Sun Halos, Athens, Greece

Subsun & Subparhelion, China

Circumzenithal & Supralateral Arcs, England

Infralateral & Circumhorizon Arcs, China

Halos - Wroclaw, Poland

Moondogs & Light Pillars, eastern Siberia, Russia

Rainbow Clouds, Washington State, USA

Prairie Halos, Canada

Baltic Halos, Estonia

Siberian Subsun & Lower Pillar, Russia

Sun Pillar, Canary Islands, Spain

Long Lived Halo, Cheshire, England

Not so Mundane Halo, Cambridge, England

Kern & Lowitz Arcs, England

Parry & Tangent Arcs, Florida, USA

Lower Sun Pillar, Arctic Russia

Royal Halos, England

Halos at Whistler, BC, Canada

Montana halos, USA

Upper Tangent Divergent Light Pillars, Finland

Subsun, Idaho, USA

Circumhorizon Arc over Mediterranean

Parry & Tangent Arcs, New Jersey, USA

Moilanen Arc, Utah, USA

Sun Pillar, South Carolina, USA

Divergent Light Superparhelion, Sweden

Light Pillars, Arctic Russia

Light Pillars, Finland

Rare Halos Over China

Ski Slope Halos, France

Snow Cannon Rare Parry Arcs, Sweden

120° parhelion, New Mexico, USA

Sundogs & Subparhelia, Alberta, Canada

North Slope Lunar Halos, Alaska, USA

Smile in the Sky, England

Lowitz Arcs plus, Germany

Halos, The Netherlands

High Sun Wegener & Parry Arc, Camaroon, West Africa

Subhorizon Halos & Glory, Alberta, Canada

Balloon Halos, UK

Yosemite Halo

Lhasa Halos

Bolide Halo, Brazil

Subhorizon Halos, Texas

Circumzenithal Arc in Contrail, England

Finland 24 June '14

Nature's Spectroscope, Czech Republic

Circumhorizon Arc over Solent, UK

High Sun Halos, Texas

Athenian High Sun Halos

Halo Panorama

Mystery Pillar Echoes

High Sun Halos

Contrail ice crystals, circumhorizon arc

Pyramidal Crystal Halos, Estonia

Contrail Shadow & Halo

Upper & Lower Pillars, Sweden

Helic, Lowitz Arcs & Image Enhancement

California Halos

Outstanding Halos, Germany

Why do we see rainbows and halos

Toronto Halos

South Pole Halos

Low sun Parry & upper tangent arcs, Canada

Not so common 22° halo

Light Pillar Illusions

Ground Halo Spokes

Swedish Cold weather Halos

Halos Yellowknife, Canada

Finland Halos

Halo Night, Moilanen & Mikkilä Arcs

Sundog or 22° halo

Lunar Upper & Lower Parry Arcs

24° Column Arcs

Circumzenithal Arc, Finland

Rare Antisolar Halos, Gulf of Riga

Subsun

Monnbows, Halo, Volcano, Stars - Hawaii

Twin Sisters Circumhorizon Arc

East Coast Halos

Diamond Dust Subsun Video

Cuba Ice Halos

Scottish Halos

Infralateral Arc

Lunar Halo Display, Poland

24° Column Arc, Poland

Belarus Elliptical

Hannover Elliptical Halo

Doomsday Ellipse

Pillars & Subsuns

Circumscribed Halo, Ireland

Circumzenithal Arc, Henley, UK

Ground Halo, Norway

1988 Lowitz Arcs

Lowitz & Parry Arcs, Georgia, USA

Light Columns, Hungary

Oslo Halos

Swiss Halos

Sun Pillar, Norway

Coloured Clouds, Poland

Pillar

Odd & Even Display

Sweden Halos

Peruvian Rainforest Halos

Lowitz visits UK

Queen of Halos

Greenland Halos

Alaska High Temperature Arc

Tre Kronor & 22° Halo

Siberian Optics

London Paralympics Halos

Lowitz Arc, California

NW England Halos

Ice & Water

Antactica, 50 years ago

Pastoral Paraselene, Shropshire, England

Lunar CZA and Noctilucent Clouds, Germany

Circumhorizon Arc

Celestial Torc

Halos - Greenland

Canada Halos

Rides & Halos on the Greenland Ice Cap

22 & 46° Frozen Lake Halos

Summer Halo

Pillars & Subsuns - Germany

Kievan Elliptical Halo

High Sun Halo - Ecuador

Subsun Streaks

Sub-Anthelic Diffraction Pillar

Lunar Elliptical Halos & Paraselenic Circle

Lunar Halos

Sub Horizon Lowitz Arcs

NW England Halos

Wales Mountain Halos

Elliptical Halo & Moilanen Arc

Lunar Alpine Halo

Crystal Halos - Poland

Sweden Halos

Three Suns - Northern Mongolia

Reflections on Sundogs

Eclipse Night Venus Pillars

Sun Pillar - Southern Urals, Russia

NY Circumzenithal Arc

Florida Halo Display

Multiple Contrail Shadows

Bouguer's Halo

Lunar 22° Halo, Hawaii

Greenland Halos

Red Arrows & Shifting Sundogs

Ice Cap Halos - Greenland

Hungarian Dog

Canine Skies

Diamond Dust Lower Pillar

California Halos

Linear Hole Punch

Upper & Lower Pillars

Lunar Circumhorizon Arc

Circumscribed Halo, Finland

New Halo Book

European rarity

Hole in the sky?

Circumhorizon arcs - Wisconsin

High sun lower Parry arc - Florida

Subsun

Twin Halos

Upper & Lower Sun Pillar

Two Summer Arcs - South Korea

Norway Sundog

New Zealand Halos - To enhance or not?

Winter Halos

Diamond Dust Display

Halos at 34000 feet

Atlantic Ocean Halos

Lowitz and Parry Arcs

Swiss Diamond Dust

Montana Halos

Twin Crescents, California

Calgary Pillars

Alpine Sun Pillar

Spanish Diamond Dust Halos

Ground Halo, Germany

Yosemite Lowitz Arcs

Finland Elliptical Halos

Light Pillars near St Petersburg

44 degree parhelion?

Swiss Alps Halos

Cluster Crystals

Red Upper Tangent Arc

Winter CZA

Greenland Subsun

Swedish Rare Halos

Manchester Halos

Moilanen Arc, Switzerland

Stockholm Dawn Pillar

Summer Halo in Winter

Avebury Halos

High Sun Parry Arcs

Oslo Rarities

White Parhelion

Greenland Ice Cap ~ Lunar Halos

Thailand Pyramidal Crystal Halos

Ottawa Dawn Pillar

Vienna Sundog Twins

All 3 Lowitz Arcs, Netherlands

Contrail Parhelion

Lunar Halo, Norway

Belfry and Lunar 22-degree Halos

New Mexico Pillar

BC, Canada Lower Parry Arc

Parry Kaleidoscope

Prague Halos

Dakota Badlands Pillar

Lone Upper Tangent Arc

Denmark's 1st August 2010 Halos

Venus Pillar

Rare for some - UK Circumhorizon Arc

Oregon Rarities

Perfect Circumscribed Halo

120 degree parhelion

Wales Pyramidal Halo

Always search for it

High sun parhelic circle

Norway Boy & Halo

Crosses in the sky

Ireland Halos

Welsh rarebit

Swiss Halos

Circumhorizon Arc

Pelican Halo

Bangkok Halos

Circumzenithal & supralateral arc, Bulgaria

Rio Halos

Parry & Upper Tangent Arcs

22 degree halo

Complete Parhelic Circle

Pillars Galore

CZA, Australia

Lone Arc - Norway

Phone Camera Triumph

New Hampshire Lowitz Arcs

Lunar Elliptical Halo

Bottlinger's Rings

St Petersburg, Russia

England Halos

Sundog

Hyperbolic Halo

Sundog

EU Halo Saturday

Mars, Disk & Hole

Russian Pillars

Pillars at Trier

Lowitz in Antarctica

Moondogs & Mars, New Zealand

Cheshmeh-Ali, Iran

Upper & Lower Pillars, Norway

Swedish Halo Display

Sun Pillar, New Jersey

White Dogs and Blue Spots

Digging for Halos

Nokia Pillars

Digging for Halos

90 degree arcs

Vädersolstavlan, ‘Sundog painting’ Stockholm, Sweden

Lunar halos

Ribbed Halo

Lunar Parry & Lowitz Arcs

Two Arcs

Sundogs - Nice, France

CZA Moments - The Movie

Circumhorizon & Infralateral Arcs

Halley Halos

Moving Pillar

Virginia halos

Very rare sub 120 parhelion

Australian CZA

Rare Lowitz Arc, Kiev

Rare Halos at Zermatt

Norwegian Halos

Kievan Lights

No Dogs on Beach (except Sundogs)

Pillars & Columns

Parry Arc

Winter Halos

Halos in cirrus fibres

Last of the summer halo?

Circumzenithal Arc, Sussex

Venetian Pyramids

Floridian Pyramids

Europe's rare halo

Two of the rarest halos

Pillars & Crystals

Elusive Parhelia

Stone Ships & Halos

Hole Punch Cloud & Halo

Zenith Pointers

Korea Halos

Athens & Halos

Pyramidal Crystal Plate Arcs

Lake Reflections

Rare Norway Display

CHAs & Latitude

Colorado Circumzenithall Arc

Sign of Summer

All in a Day

California Halos

Brazil Halos

Odd & Even

End faces

Shetland Pyramids

4 out of 5

Snake Valley Halo

Lunar Halo

Pillars of Venus

Lowitz Arcs over Portugal

Pillars with Flares - Part 2

Subhorizon Arcs, Odd and Even Reflections

Extremely rare 44 degree parhelia (sundogs)

Swedish Reflected Lowitz Arcs

Pillars with Flares - Part 1

Wendelstein Halo

South Pole Midsummer

Solstice Halos

CZA Australia

Boston Pillar

Lunar Halos

More New halos

New Halo

Mt Wendelstein Elliptical Halo

Elliptical Halo

Pennsylvania lights

Lamp halos - Anthelic Sky

Halos in a bottle

Eye in the sky, Parry arc

Summer Reminder - November '08

Coloured 120° Parhelia

White Parhelia

Moonlight CZA

Hole in the Sky

46° Arcs

Lunar CZA

Antarctica

Parry Arcs

North Cascades Subsun,

Brazil Arcs

Arctic Halos

Mountain Halos

Winter Ice

Desert Pillar

Midwest Subsun

Montana Pyramids

Tales of subsun tails

Summer Ice

Sun and Antisun

Halo pair

Beneath the stars

Polish Wegener Arcs

Elusive Circle

Tower Halo

60 and 90 degree prisms in Antarctica

22° or circumscribed halo?

High Sun Halos

Summer Arc

New York Circumzenithal Arc ... May '08

Halos ~ Colorado Rockies

Lowitz Arc, Israel

High Sun Halos, Israel

Antisolar Arcs

Halos & Ra

Pyramid Crystal Halos

Below Horizon Halos

Circumzenithal Arc, Russia

Easter Halos

Winter Halos

Arizona Moon Dogs ... March '08

Sunset Pillar

Diamond Dust Halos

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