Word: parhelion
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...storm is over, and the sun returns. The albino rides the light. At a certain angle, the bird becomes a radiance, a sort of feathered parhelion, a sundog. Yet at the core of the radiance you make out a dark center, the bird's skeleton and organs - in the way your hand looked to you when you were a child and you shined a flashlight beam through it, and through the translucence of your flesh, saw the dark blur of your bones...
Charles F. Brooks, director of the Meteorological Observatory, reported that from the University station on Blue Hill the observable phenomena included parhelic, a parhelic circle, a parhelion of 120 degrees, a circumzenithal are, an upper tangent are, and also the familiar 22 degree halo about...
Rarest of the observed phenomena, Dr. Brooks said, was the parhelion of 120 degrees, a round white spot in the northeast, a reflection of the sun. Dr. Brooks said he had never before seen in parhelion of 120 degrees in thirty-five years of observing...
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