Rare HALO in the Skies. I have never experienced anything like th...

Have you ever seen anything so amazing in the skies?
This was not something I have ever heard of or seen anywhere, so when my sons came running home to show me the amazing Halo in the sky while living in El Salvador in 2012. We all looked outside from our backyard and when we looked at it, I almost fell to my knees, I had no idea what it was, and to tell you the truth I thought it was the end of the word or some kind of UFO showed up, because it looked so dark and the Halo was so amazingly big, which you cannot really see on this picture.

I really felt scared and none of us really knew what it was, till my 13 year old son told us it was Halo. The reason he knew this is because he played the Halo video games and he has seen some Halos in the game. I guess the games could be good for something and you can learn a lot of things from your kids.

I absolutely will remember this day forever and I feel grateful to have been able to experience this amazingly beautiful part of nature and Gods creation.

SO WHAT EXACTLY IS HALO?

Halo is a large optical phenomenon which belongs to the crystal halos family in a ring form with a radius of approximately 22° around the Sun or Moon. It is formed when the sun or the moon is refracted in millions of ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
Halos can vary in different shapes and colors, but the best known halo type is the circular halo which is called the 22° Halo. There are also Sun Dogs Halos and Light Pillars Halos and many more. Some of them are extremely rare when some are fairly common.

The pictures were taken with Sony Cyber-shot W350.

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Rare HALO in the Skies. I have never experienced anything like this before.