MAKE A MEME View Large Image Vädersoltavlan cropped.JPG 17th century painting of Stockholm a copy of the so called Vädersolstavlan depicting a halo display event in 1535 Cleaned in 1998 The visible haloes are 22 ° halo at upper right should be centered on the Sun ...
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Keywords: Vädersoltavlan cropped.JPG 17th century painting of Stockholm a copy of the so called Vädersolstavlan depicting a halo display event in 1535 Cleaned in 1998 The visible haloes are 22 ° halo at upper right should be centered on the Sun parhelic circle large white circle centered on the zenith appears 'horizontal' in the sky parhelia including 2 sundogs 2 120° parhelia and the anthelion dots on the parhelic circle resp nearest to farthest from the Sun upper tangent arc and possible Parry arc 2 crossing arcs just left of the 22° halo actually 'above' the 22° in the sky ; not realistically shown circumzenithal arc smaller crescent inside the parhelic circle also centered on the zenith appears 'horizontal' high in the sky infralateral arc bottom right Note that the whole sky appears strongly tilted in the image the upper right corner is actually down in the sky when looking towards the Sun the zenith is at the center of the circumzenithal arc and parhelic circle This may result from the artist's choice to represent the display in a realistic orientation relative to the landscape in this case the sun would have shone from 3/4 back to the right of an observer facing the city The relative brightnesses of the haloes are quite accurate Same as Image Vädersoltavlan_cleaned JPG slightly cropped <br /> Original from http //hem passagen se/erkkip/home/vadersolstavlan html k here Pop-up warning 17th century / 2007-04-07 Mats Halldin PD-old <gallery> Image Vädersoltavlan cleaned JPG Original version </gallery> PD-old-100 Vädersolstavlan Parhelia
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