A Long-lived Solar Halo

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THERE has been visible here to-day a solar halo remarkable both for its vivid intensity and for its protracted duration. It was first noticed by me at 12.35 p.m. It then formed an unbroken ring, of which the most intensely luminous portion was to the south of the sun, and the least luminous portion to the west-north-west. Half an hour later the southern and northern quadrants of the circle were equally bright, but the northern appeared the more compact and definite; meanwhile, the eastern and western portions continued comparatively feeble, more especially the latter. These conditions remained unchanged for fully 112 hours! After 2.15 p.m. the northern segment of the halo was alone conspicuous, and after 3.30 p.m. the ring was never again complete, though two mock suns (to the southward and eastward respectively) still testified to the original configuration. By 4.50 p.m. nothing remained but a diffused, pale rainbow-coloured mock-sun to the north of the sun; but after 5.15 p.m. this became less indefinite, and by 6 p.m. fully a semicircle of a halo was again traceable above the sun, but this faded gradually, nothing surviving after about 6.20 p.m. The unusually strong tone of rusty orange colouring, and the conspicuous darkness of the region enclosed, made the halo an unusually striking object when at its best (12.30 to 2 p.m.).

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