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Anthelion
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An anthelion is a rare optical phenomenon of the halo family, appearing as a faint white spot on the parhelic circle directly opposite the Sun, resembling a sundog seen from the other side of the sky, and sometimes crossed by a faint X-shaped pair of diffuse arcs.
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