List of atmospheric optical phenomena

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

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