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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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An anthelion (plural anthelia, from late Greek ανθηλιος, "opposite the sun") is a rare optical phenomenon of the halo family.
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