Started out as a segment of 22d halo
and circumscribed halo with right parhelion and parhelic circle but
later on a nice sheet of cirrus stratus clouds blew in and in the cirrus
were hi-quality column and plate crystals. I was getting near the end
of mowing the lawn and hurried up and in all got to see 22 degree halo
and sharp oval halo that surrounds the 22 degree halo is a circumscribed
halo from oriented hex column crystals, Infralateral arc also from hex
column crystals, a complete parhelic circle and the bright horizontal
rainbow colored arc near the horizon is a circumhorizontal arc. Some
refer to the Circumhorizontal arc as a " fire rainbow" and it has
nothing to do with fire or rainbows. Circumhorizontal arc is a spring
and summer time halo only because the sun has to be over 58 deg
elevation to form. if one lives at 57 deg latitude will not see it
because sun won't get high enough but it can be seen in low level
diamond dust at night around artificial light sources
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