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ON Friday, June 27, about 5 p.m. my attention was drawn to a solar halo which lasted for about two hours from that time; the circular part of the halo was white, and about the size of an ice halo, the sun apparently about four times its proper size andof badly-defined outline; all within the halo was darker than the rest of the sky, and vertically over the sun there was about an octant of another circle (?) touching the first one, but prismatically though not brilliantly coloured. On Saturday night there was a strong pink glow from 9 to 9.30 in the north-north-west, with a greener sky near the moon, which was itself also somewhat green.
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TAYLOR, W. Solar Halo. Nature 30, 241 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030241c0
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