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    High Tatras Halo Display   
      
      February 20, 2023   
      
      
       Winter_Sun_halo_Slovakia   
      
      Photographer:  Viktor Belicak   
      Summary Authors:  Viktor Belicak;  Jim Foster   
      Featured above is a panorama of an attention-getting  halo display I   
      captured from the village of Zdiar in the very eastern part of the High   
      Tatras Mountains of Slovakia. It was taken just after sunrise on   
      December 18, 2022. The morning air was bitter cold -- temperature about   
      0 degrees F (-18 C). Sunlight shining through  ice crystals   
      suspended in the air, within 100 m or so of the surface, created this   
      atmospheric wonder.   
      
      Easily visible here are the  22-degree halo,  parhelia (sundogs)   
      and upper  tangent arc (at top of 22-degree halo). Other arcs were   
      visible as the Sun rose higher. Displays such as this can on occasion   
      be observed at  ski resorts when  snow making equipment is used   
      to augment the natural snowpack. However, high winds lifting ice   
      crystals from the surface into the air or crystals  free-falling   
      through the lower atmosphere may also result in these displays.   
      
      Photo details: Panorama made of 6 photos; ISO 100; 18mm; f 8; 1/400   
      second exposure.   
      
      Zdiar, High Tatras, Slovakia Coordinates: 49.2713, 20.2734   
      
      
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