Heiligenschein or Halo Effect
When a bright light source is directly behind us, we see a brighter ring around the shadow of our head. This is the Heiligenschein, or…
When a bright light source is directly behind us, we see a brighter ring around the shadow of our head. This is the Heiligenschein, or…
My thanks to Alan Gibson, author of the Urbane Forager blog and book, for sending me these great images of a contrail shadow. (Contrails are…