The colors of the sun dog finally merge into the white of the parhelic circle ( if the latter is visible ).
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The subhelic arc crosses the parhelic circle in an acute angle, and at a sun elevation of 27?it passes exactly through the 120?parhelion.
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When the sun is above 32.2? light exits the crystals through the bottom face instead, to contribute to the almost colorless parhelic circle.
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File : Halo phantom-sun . jpg | Complex halo display ( 22?halo, sun dogs, upper tangent arc, upper and lower Sun pillar, parhelic circle, supralateral arc ) observed in Les M�nuires ( elevation ~ 2200 metres ), Rhone-Alpes, France on January 23, 2015, during sunset at 16 : 30
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Fourth there was a very white and silvery circle emerging from the two sundogs beside the real sun ( " the parhelic circle " ), which surrounded the whole horizon and was in all parts at the same distance, which was about 20 degrees : On this circle there were three other silver suns, one in the northwest, opposite the real sun ( " the anthelion " ).
परिभाषा
a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun; caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere पर्याय: solar halo, parhelic ring,
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