1) Atmospheric optical phenomena
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An anthelion (plural anthelia, from late Greek ανθηλιος, `opposite the sun`) is a rare optical phenomenon appearing on the parhelic circle opposite to the sun as a faint white halo, not unlike a sundog. How anthelions are formed is disputed. Walter Tape, among others, has argued they are not separate haloes, but simply where various halo.....
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luminous ring seen on a cloud opposite the sun
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• (n.) A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator`s own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.
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Ant·hel'ion noun ;
plural Anthelia [ Prefix
anti + Greek ... sun.]
(Meteor.) A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.
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An anthelion is a luminous ring, or rings, seen by an observer, especially in alpine and polar regions, around the shadow of his head projected on a cloud or fog-bank, or on grass covered with dew, fifteen or twenty metres distant, and opposite the sun
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a luminous, white spot occasionally appearing at the sun's elevation but in the opposite part of the sky.
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