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A blossary of different cosmological and meteorological phenomena.

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A Fata Morgana is an unusual and complex form of superior mirage that is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon. It is an Italian phrase derived from the vulgar Latin for "fairy" and ...

Domain: Optometry; Category: 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; Category: 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; Category: 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; Category: 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; Category: Optical phenomena

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; Category: Optical phenomena

A glory is an optical phenomenon that resembles an iconic saint's halo about the shadow of the observer's head. The effect is believed to happen due to classical wave tunneling, when light ...

Domain: Optometry; Category: Optical phenomena

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