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A light pillar, or sun pillar, appears as a vertical pillar or column of light rising from the Sun near sunset or sunrise, though it can appear below the Sun, particularly if the observer is at a high elevation or altitude. Hexagonal plate- and column-shaped ice crystals cause the phenomenon. Plate crystals generally cause pillars only when the Sun is within 6 degrees of the horizon; column crystals can cause a pillar when the Sun is as high as 20 degrees above the horizon. The crystals tend to orient themselves near-horizontally as they fall or float through the air, and the width and visibility of a sun pillar depend on crystal alignment. Find sources: "Halo"optical phenomenon– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( September 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Further information: 22° halo and 46° halo Ice crystals (only four represented above) form the 22° halo, with red and blue light being refracted at slightly different angles. a b Großmann, Michael; Möllmann, Klaus-Peter; Vollmer, Michael (2014-12-15). "Artificially generated halos: rotating sample crystals around various axes". Applied Optics. The Optical Society. 54 (4): B97-106. doi: 10.1364/ao.54.000b97. ISSN 1559-128X. PMID 25967845.

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Other common types of optical phenomena involving water droplets rather than ice crystals include the glory and rainbow. Decorative solar lanterns will brighten up dark corners, and also look lovely when hung from a tree or pergola. They're also great for keeping handy on your outdoor dining set to add a warm glow to surroundings. Stake lights are great for marking pathways and flowerbeds. They’re easily installed; just push them into soft soil or a flowerbed. Following Huygens' idea of the (false) mechanism of the 22° parhelia, one may also illuminate (from the side) a water-filled cylindrical glass with an inner central obstruction of half the glasses' diameter to achieve upon projection on a screen an appearance which closely resembles parhelia (cf. footnote [39] in Ref., [9] or see here [11]), i.e. an inner red edge transitioning into a white band at larger angles on both sides of the direct transmission direction. However, while the visual match is close, this particular experiment does not involve a fake caustic mechanism and is thus no real analogue. Solar-powered lights rely on a steady supply of sunlight, rather than electricity. To set them up, just position them, or the attached solar panel, in a sunny spot and they’ll soak up the rays. The sun will charge up the battery and they’ll come on automatically after dark. Do solar garden lights work in winter?

Some pretty string lights or festoon lights hung from a fence or railing add a bit of twinkle to surroundings, and help set the right mood at dinner parties and garden get-togethers. A Bottlinger's ring is a rare type of halo that is elliptical instead of circular. It has a small diameter, which makes it very difficult to see in the Sun's glare and more likely to be spotted around the dimmer Subsun, often seen from mountain tops or airplanes. Bottlinger's rings are not well understood yet. It is suggested that they are formed by very flat pyramidal ice crystals with faces at uncommonly low angles, suspended horizontally in the atmosphere. These precise and physically problematic requirements would explain why the halo is very rare. [4] Other names [ edit ] Colourful light– With 45 multi-coloured LEDs, this Spiralight will add an exciting and inviting feel to the area. Light pillars can also form around the Moon, and around street lights or other bright lights. Pillars forming from ground-based light sources may appear much taller than those associated with the Sun or Moon. Since the observer is closer to the light source, crystal orientation matters less in the formation of these pillars. Other haloes can form at 46° to the Sun, or at the horizon, or around the zenith, and can appear as full haloes or incomplete arcs.

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Vollmer, Michael; Greenler, Robert (2003-01-20). "Halo and mirage demonstrations in atmospheric optics". Applied Optics. The Optical Society. 42 (3): 394–398. Bibcode: 2003ApOpt..42..394V. doi: 10.1364/ao.42.000394. ISSN 0003-6935. PMID 12570259.An Analog Light Scattering Experiment of Hexagonal Icelike Particles. Part II: Experimental and Theoretical Results", JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, Vol. 56, B. Barkey, K.N. Liou, Y. Takano, W. Gellerman, P. Sokolkly, 1999. Ulanowski, Zbigniew (2005-09-20). "Ice analog halos". Applied Optics. The Optical Society. 44 (27): 5754–5758. Bibcode: 2005ApOpt..44.5754U. doi: 10.1364/ao.44.005754. ISSN 0003-6935. PMID 16201438. Glory– Optical phenomenon that resembles an iconic saint's halo about the shadow of the observer's head Gislén, Lars; Mattsson, Jan O (2007-10-16). "Tabletop divergent-light halos". Physics Education. IOP Publishing. 42 (6): 579–584. Bibcode: 2007PhyEd..42..579G. doi: 10.1088/0031-9120/42/6/003. ISSN 0031-9120. S2CID 122261149. Atmospheric optics– Study of the optical characteristics of the atmosphere or products of atmospheric processes