Upper Lowitz arc in Germany

On February 21, Wolfgang Hamburg was on holiday in the Erzgebirge, but rather had snow there. Around noon, the cirrus clouds which already had caused an unusual halo activity in Bavaria (see one thread below), arrived at his position in Mulda. So between 1 and 1.30 pm, Wolfgang Hamburg also observed unusually bright sundogs followed by a beautiful display showing Parry arc and upper Lowitz arc. The enhancement of the unsharp mask shows the arc in the "Chinese eye" formed by the halos.

Tricker arc in Prague

Very rare Tricker anthelic arc was observed in Prague by Stepanka Kosova. Stepanka seen bright anthelion with "small X". This image is stacking of three photos. It is part of nice halo display with Parry arc and 120 parhelia at October 12 2006.

More rare halos in Czechoslovakia

Today was day of halos for all observers. I was seen: Parry arc, Infralateral arc. Martin Jankovic: Parry arc, 120 parhelia. Milan Cerny: Parry arc. Stepanka Kosova: Parry arc, 120 parhelia. Roman Manak: Parry arc and Martin Popek: 120 parhelia. For discussion: Lukas Shrbeny from Ondrejov had maybe Lowitz arc. You see his link.

Low sun Parry in Helsinki

October is probably the worst halo month in Finland. The last chances for good high cloud displays are gone with September and diamond dust is not swarming in until November. So it was nice to see today a low sun Parry starting to develop in the sky upon returning from grocery store. Grabbed pocket camera and tripod from my room and rushed to nearby parking lot.

The two images are stacked from series of 15 and 16 shots. The time span is two minutes in both stacks.

Earlier I had seen low sun Parry's only on two occasions. These were in high arctic Canada during diamond dust conditions. It took 22 years of observing to get one in high clouds.