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A blossary of different cosmological and meteorological phenomena.

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It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with the reflection and refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds in the very particular case when the ...

Domain: Optometry; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Optical phenomena

A false sunrise or dawn sundog is a very particular kind of parhelion, belonging to the optical phenomenon family of halos. It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with the reflection or ...

Domain: Optometry; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Optical phenomena

A moon dog, moondog, or mock moon, (scientific name paraselene, plural paraselenae, i.e. "beside the moon") is a relatively rare bright circular spot on a lunar halo caused by the ...

Domain: Optometry; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Optical phenomena

A Brocken spectre (German Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre, is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds ...

Domain: Optometry; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Optical phenomena

A bishop's ring is a diffuse brown or bluish halo observed around the sun. It is typically observed after large volcanic eruptions. Most observations agree that the inner rim of the ring is ...

Domain: Optometry; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Optical phenomena

Anticrepuscular rays are similar to crepuscular rays, but seen opposite the sun in the sky. Anticrepuscular rays are near-parallel, but appear to converge at the antisolar point because of linear ...

Domain: Optometry; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Optical phenomena

Crepuscular rays (also known as God rays) in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps ...

Domain: Optometry; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Optical phenomena

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