0 a bright spot that appears in the sky on either side of the sun, caused by the refraction (= bending) of light through ice crystals in high cloud:
The landscape occasionally gives up breathtaking distractions, including parhelia - solar halos.
The positions of the parhelia of 22 degrees, e, e′, also depend upon solar altitude.
Two evenings later, the parhelia gave us another spectacle of interest.
A beautiful parhelion was seen, one of the most complete yet observed, in the perfection of its circles and the brightness of its colors.
Sometimes during the summer we see the parhelion, a similar phenomenon of the sun.
At each point of contact occurs a parhelion which is a mock sun of brilliant colors and called a sun-dog.
The parhelia are formed by the reflection of the sunbeams on a cloud properly situated.
