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A display of ice crystal haloes over the Churchill Rocket Range, Feb. 9, 2016. The Sun is surrounded by the main 22° halo with extended and colourful sundogs or parhelia on either side of the Sun. The top of the 22° halo is adorned by the upper tangent arc. A fainter outer 46° halo is also visible with a dim circumzenithal arc at its upper point. A faint circumhorizontal arc also extends through the Sun and sundogs parallel to the horizon. The display is caused by nearby ice crystals which are visible as starlike points in the sky. See http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/unusual.htm

The scene is the old abandoned Churchill Rocket Range, near Churchill, Manitoba.

This is a 5-exposure handheld stack of exposures for a high dynamic range composite, merged with Adobe Camera Raw. The lens was the 15mm full-frame fish-eye on the Canon 6D.
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Haloes, 2016 & 2017 Churchill Auroras
A display of ice crystal haloes over the Churchill Rocket Range, Feb. 9, 2016. The Sun is surrounded by the main 22° halo with extended and colourful sundogs or parhelia on either side of the Sun. The top of the 22° halo is adorned by the upper tangent arc. A fainter outer 46° halo is also visible with a dim circumzenithal arc at its upper point. A faint circumhorizontal arc also extends through the Sun and sundogs parallel to the horizon. The display is caused by nearby ice crystals which are visible as starlike points in the sky. See http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/unusual.htm <br /> <br /> The scene is the old abandoned Churchill Rocket Range, near Churchill, Manitoba.<br /> <br /> This is a 5-exposure handheld stack of exposures for a high dynamic range composite, merged with Adobe Camera Raw. The lens was the 15mm full-frame fish-eye on the Canon 6D.