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YESTERDAY a parhelion or mock sun was seen here. At 3h. 20m. I was at the Observatory, and the true sun was sinking in the south-west upon a somewhat dense cloud-bank with light and long cirro strati about and above it. The air was comparatively calm, the anemometer cups moving only occasionally and slowly. The horizon was foggy and misty. The spectral sun appeared as a bright diffused circular spot of light tinged with prismatic colours about 30° to the left (E.) of the true sun, and in a horizontal line with it.
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CAPRON, J. Parhelion. Nature 23, 291 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023291b0
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