Category:Atmospheric optical phenomena
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Atmospheric optical phenomena are often due to the interaction of light from the sun or moon with the atmosphere, clouds, water, or dust and other particulates.
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Pages in category "Atmospheric optical phenomena"
The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total.
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- 120° parhelion (earth)
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- 22° halo (earth)
4
- 46° halo (earth)
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- Afterglow (earth)
- Air mass (astronomy)
- Airglow (astronomy)
- Alexander's band (earth)
- Alpenglow (earth)
- Anthelion (earth)
- Anticrepuscular rays (earth)
- Atmospheric optics (physics)
- Atmospheric refraction (astronomy)
- Aureole effect (earth)
- Aurora (astronomy)
- Aurorasaurus (earth)
B
- Belt of Venus (earth)
- Bishop's Ring (earth)
- Blue hour (earth)
- Brocken spectre (physics)
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- Circumhorizontal arc (earth)
- Circumscribed halo (earth)
- Circumzenithal arc (physics)
- Cloud iridescence (earth)
- Corona (optical phenomenon) (earth)
- Crepuscular rays (earth)
- Crown flash (physics)
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- Dawn sundog (earth)
- Daylight (physics)
- Dewbow (earth)
- Diamond dust (earth)
- Diffuse sky radiation (astronomy)
- Moon dog (earth)
E
- Earth's shadow (earth)
F
- False sunrise (earth)
- False sunset (earth)
- Fata Morgana (mirage) (earth)
- Fog bow (earth)
- Foo fighter (earth)
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- Glory (optical phenomenon) (earth)
- Golden hour (photography) (earth)
- Green flash (astronomy)
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- Halo (optical phenomenon) (earth)
- Haze (earth)
- Heiligenschein (earth)
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- Ice blink (earth)
- Ice crystals (earth)
- Iceblink (earth)
- Infralateral arc (earth)
- Ionized-air glow (physics)
- Irisation (earth)
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- Kern arc (earth)
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- Light pillar (physics)
- Liljequist parhelion (earth)
- Looming and similar refraction phenomena (earth)
- Lowitz arc (physics)
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- Mirage (earth)
- Mirage of astronomical objects (earth)
- Monochrome rainbow (earth)
- Moonbow (astronomy)
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- List of natural phenomena (earth)
- Noctilucent cloud (earth)
- Novaya Zemlya effect (astronomy)
P
- Parhelic circle (earth)
- Parry arc (earth)
- Photometeor (earth)
R
- Rainbow (earth)
- Rayleigh scattering (physics)
- Rayleigh sky model (physics)
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- Twinkling (astronomy)
- Sevenfold sun miracle (astronomy)
- Shiranui (optical phenomenon) (earth)
- Sky brightness (astronomy)
- Space jellyfish (earth)
- Steve (atmospheric phenomenon) (astronomy)
- Subhelic arc (earth)
- Subparhelic circle (earth)
- Subsun (earth)
- Sun dog (astronomy)
- Sun glitter (astronomy)
- Sunbeam (earth)
- Sunglint (astronomy)
- Supralateral arc (earth)
- Sylvanshine (earth)
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- Tropospheric scatter (physics)
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- Upper and lower tangent arcs (earth)
W
- Water sky (earth)