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Sun Pillar with Sun Dogs, being formed here as the sunlight is refracted by the ground level ice crystal cloud, diamond dust, over the Adirondack Mountains in Vermontville, New York, US.
Sun dogs and sun pillar in diamond dust over Disbury, Alberta, Canada.
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An optical display in diamond dust over Louisville, Colorado, US.
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A display of arcs and halos in diamond dust over Waitsfield, Vermont, US.
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Arcs and halos in diamond dust over Park City, Utah, US.
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A halo and sundogs over Saskatoon, Canada.
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A display in diamond dust over Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
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A 22 degree halo, upper tangent arc and Supralateral arc over Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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A display of arcs and halos in diamond dust over Kotzebue, Alaska.
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A display of arcs and halos in diamond dust over Nesodden, Norway.
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A halo and sundogs in diamond dust over Little Detroit Lake, US. © Timothy Kessler (Member 45,331)
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A halo, sundog, lower tangent arc and pillar in diamond dust over Washington State, US.
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A halo and circumzenithal arc over Smuggler’s Notch in Jeffersonville, Vermont, US.
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A sundog over Coventry, UK.
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A halo encircles the sun over a Twin Otter aircraft at the Eureka, Canada airfield on Ellesmere Island.
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A halo and sundogs at sunrise over Austin, Minnesota, US.
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