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Description: Photo visual spectacles produced by light playing on water drops, dust and ice crystals in the atmosphere. Explanations applying atmospheric physics, images and downloadable freeware to simulate them.
Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles - rainbows, halos, glories, coronas and many more. Some can be seen almost every day or so, some are once in a lifetime sights. Find out where to see them and how they are formed. Then seek and enjoy them outdoors.
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Page title:Atmospheric Optics
Keywords:rainbow, rainbows,Atmospheric halos, halo, atmospheric optics, parhelia, sun dogs, sundogs, halos, Parry, Lowitz, circumzenithal, circumhorizontal, tangent arcs, ice crystals
Description:Atmospheric optics - Rainbows, halos, glories and many other visual spectacles produced by light playing on water drops, dust and ice crystals in the atmosphere with explanations, images and downloadable freeware to simulate them.
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