List of atmospheric optical phenomena

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A circumzenithal arc over Grand Forks, North Dakota The Belt of Venus over Paranal Observatory atop Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile[1] Crepuscular rays at sunrise in Malibu, California

Atmospheric optical phenomena include:

* Afterglow
* Airglow
* Alexander's band, the dark region between the two bows of a double rainbow.
* Alpenglow
* Anthelion
* Anticrepuscular rays
* Aurora (northern and southern lights, aurora borealis and aurora australis)
* Belt of Venus
* Brocken Spectre
* Circumhorizontal arc
* Circumzenithal arc
* Cloud iridescence
* Crepuscular rays
* Earth's shadow
* Earthquake lights
* Glories
* Green flash
* Halos, of Sun or Moon, including sun dogs
* Haze
* Heiligenschein or halo effect, partly caused by the opposition effect
* Ice blink
* Light pillar
* Lightning
* Mirages (including Fata Morgana)
* Monochrome Rainbow
* Moon dog
* Moonbow
* Nacreous cloud/Polar stratospheric cloud
* Rainbow
* Sprite (lightning)
* Subsun
* Sun dog
* Tangent arc
* Tyndall effect
* Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES
* Water sky

A double rainbow at Minsi Lake, Pennsylvania

A sun pillar in Finistère, Brittany

Atmospheric optical phenomenon

## See also

## References

1. ↑ "Belt of Venus over Cerro Paranal". Picture of the Week. ESO. http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1331a/.

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