Solar Halo

Posted by DaveMitsky
on Thursday, May 16, 2013

by Dave Mitsky

A complete 22° solar halo was visible from my front yard shortly after 1:00 p.m. EDT on May 14, 2013.  I captured a portion of the halo using a Canon PowerShot SD980 IS digital camera set on automatic (ISO 80 at f/8).

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halosim.htm

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circular.htm

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