120° parhelion and parhelic circle

[Nick Beck]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post on here, I was encouraged to join by Alec Jones. I've been observing halos for about a year and a half now, though I've known about them for several years. I find them very interesting and beautiful!

I observed today, a nice 120° parhelion and parhelic circle. When I saw the 120° parhelion, it was the only halo in the sky, which has happened before in my experience, but later there was parhelic circle segment.



You can see more at http://floridasundog.blogspot.com/, and some other optics images.

Kind regards,

Nick

[Uwe F.]

Welcome and thanks for the picture,

It must have been an awesome experience for you, a 120° Parhelion I have not seen yet, although I look for it.
I followed the link to your site and found some great pictures, especially the picture of the long cloud shadows and the iridescent cloud are fascinating!

Best regards Uwe

Willkommen und Danke für das Bild,

Es muss für Dich ein überwältigendes Erlebnis gewesen sein, ein 120° Parhelion habe ich noch nicht gesehen, obwohl ich danach suche.
Ich folgte dem Link zu Deiner Seite und fand einige schöne Bilder, insbesondere das Bild mit den langen Wolkenschatten und den irisierenden Wolken fand ich faszinierend.

Grüße Uwe

ps: Übersetzung in Deutsch nur wegen SEO

[Michael Ellestad]

Hey Nick,

Welcome to the forum!! 120d Parhelia are quite common up in Ohio where I live along other halos but I have seen some pretty rare stuff like odd radius halos from pyramidal crystals, exotic arcs from hex columns and the mysterious and rare elliptical halos. Since you live in Florida theres a chance you will get waterspout tornadoes too. I saw one in Key Largo Fl back in 2009 and got pics of the twister.

We look forward to more of your images

Greetings from Southern Ohio,

Michael

[Elmar Schmidt]

Hi Nick,

welcome to AKM. It is good to have Florida on our map. I have taken an interest in the summertime halo CHA (circumhorizon arc), which should be visible half a year around noon from your place (as it requires the sun to be higher than 58 degrees, being finest for 68 +/- 5 degrees), so maybe we'll see some here.

Kind regards

Elmar

[Nick Beck]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

I also see quite a few 120° parhelia here, Michael. I also see quite a few Parry arcs, and I've seen a few odd radius halos so far. We've had some tornadoes and water spouts as well. About a year ago there was a good one in the river, but I don't live close enough to there to of gotten a picture of it!

Circumhorizon arcs are also very common in Florida, Elmar! This year I saw 13 of them over seven months of the year! When summer gets around I'll post some good circumhorizon arcs.

Regards,

Nick

[Michael Ellestad]

Hey Nick,

I also get circumhorizon arcs as well and they are common in the summer but in the winter the sun gets too low but in the winter I can get one under the moon which I did last year or before and there was a faint but complete parhelic circle as well.

Regards,

Michael