Double Sun Halo Dazzles Leh Sky! Netizen Captures Rare Multiple Halos in Viral Photos

There are many celestial phenomena in the world and most of them are only visible at night, but a Halo created by the sun is visible only in the day when the sunlight is refracted by the  crystals present in a thin veil of cirrus clouds. And in a rare scene a 'double sun halo' was seen in the bright sky of Leh and the parts of Ladakh today. 

An X user claimed that Leh had multiple Halo and posted a photo of the sun in which multiple Halo are formed around it in the clear blue sky. Dorje Angchuk posted a picture of the Sun and wrote, “Leh was greeted with multiple halo .. any idea why there are multiple of them ??”

Dorje Angchuk also posted a picture of Wegener arcs which is another rare atmospheric optical phenomena.

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Later he posted another picture of the sun in which the halos are crossing each other, and later in this thread he also explains what is a ‘Double Sun Halo’ and how it forms, with a picture and an article. 

But what is a ‘Double Sun Halo’ and how does it form?

A double sun halo, also called a "sun dog" or "parhelion," happens when sunlight refracts through ice crystals in the atmosphere, creating bright spots near the sun at a 22-degree angle. This optical phenomenon is often accompanied by a halo around the sun and occurs with cirrus clouds containing ice crystals.

He also added a picture explaining both Double Sun Halo’ and the Wegener Arc, and the text in the picture reads, “Sun rays passing across horizontal hexagonal ice prisms produce both the rare Wegener arcs and the more common circumscribed halo. The difference is all in a single internal reflection.

Circumscribe halo rays enter a prism side face and leave through another inclined at 60°. Wegener arc rays do the same except that they reflect inside the crystal from an end face. Crystal end faces more often have defects and this is one reason for Wegener arc rarity.”