A glittering morning -- solar halo with sundogs

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It was the start into a freezing cold day, and the entire sky was glittering with tiny ice crystals that fell out of a fog that had covered the sky all night. As the fog started dissolving and the sun came through, the light formed a bright halo around the sun, complete with colorful sundogs on either side of the sun. These phenomena appear due to the refraction of sunlight from ice crystals in clouds.

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Type Image Format JPG Size 4.9 MB Width 3988 px Height 2811 px Aspect 3988:2811 Tint Dark bluish gray Submitted 21 January 2021

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