22 Degree Solar Halo, 1928


A Phantom Born of Ice Crystals - A Solar Halo. A picture taken at St. Moritz, in the Alps, October 8, 1928, showing the common halo of 22 degrees around the sun. the clouds are cirro-stratus. St. Moritz, France, October 8, 1928. A solar halo is a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun; caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere.


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