Taste the Rainbow.

garrettfaber: Parhelia is plural for Sun dog, a searing point of light in the sky typically riding rings or halos to either side of the Sun. Parhelion – complete halos – in South Pole conditions spring from diamond dust, the hexagonal crystals acting as prisms that bend incoming light rays at a minimum 22° deflection. You’ll see a completed ring when the crystals orient at random. More often than not, though, crystals will align vertically, thus forming a Sun dog, as diamond dust sinks through the atmosphere. Parhelia are reddish toward the side closest to the Sun. Colors range from orange to blue, though they’re muted and prone to overlap, the farther parhelia stray from the Sun. View Larger

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Parhelia is plural for Sun dog, a searing point of light in the sky typically riding rings or halos to either side of the Sun. Parhelion – complete halos – in South Pole conditions spring from diamond dust, the hexagonal crystals acting as prisms that bend incoming light rays at a minimum 22° deflection. You’ll see a completed ring when the crystals orient at random. More often than not, though, crystals will align vertically, thus forming a Sun dog, as diamond dust sinks through the atmosphere.

Parhelia are reddish toward the side closest to the Sun. Colors range from orange to blue, though they’re muted and prone to overlap, the farther parhelia stray from the Sun.

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