Interesting Sun Halo

Hi all, a friend just re-sent this to me. His friend took the pictures in Casma - Peru, few of days ago. According to the email, it happened from 0930 and 1100 hours. It seems that he got little bit nervous about the unusual shape and characteristics.

By the way, Casma is known for its pyramids, at the ancient city of Moxeque. Also the ruins of Sechin Bajo (about 5,500 years old).

www.perutoptours.com...
www.youtube.com...
www.gogeometry.com...

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UPDATE: He just sent another email, same pics are here too : casma-peru.blogspot.com...

Your friend was lucky. He observed a rare combination of meteorological effects:
Circumsolar, and circumzenithal arcs.
en.wikipedia.org...

stunning
amazing what the sun can do when it wants

phage is this a effect of our atmosphere ?
or lens effect?

thanks
xp

reply to post by XPLodER

It's there. No camera necessary.
Ice crystals in the stratosphere and just the right angle of sunlight.

reply to post by Phage


kinda like a rainbow with water crystals wow
iv never seen it before
thanks

xploder

Holy Crap!!!

Thats unbelievably rare!! Looks like you have a circumzenithal arc combined with a heliac arc and the more common 22 degree halo

I suggest you submit your picture to www.atoptics.co.uk...

They would be able to tell you exactly what they are, and will also probably ask to use your pic for their gallery

reply to post by Phage


Yes, I think he was so lucky too. Thanks for that aditional info. I'll send that to him now.

reply to post by OzWeatherman


Thanks Oz, I just told him to do that as you recommend.

reply to post by Trueman


thats beautiful, thanks for sharing, imagine if you were in a little one man glider flying past those ice crystals and could still see it...

reply to post by B.Morrison


Wow, if you fly in the middle of that thing, people on ground will say you're an UFO.....haha!