Weird Enormous Sun Halo

[cyclonic happiness]

I took these shots of the din earlier today.

I thought them weird because of the sheer size of the halo , which took up 1/3 of the sky.

Sorry about the photos , they're from my mobile and it's the first time ive tried it.

[misha]

Gorgeous foties CH! Size of sun halos here - http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/24oct_sunrings/

[Crepuscular Ray]

Unless you had a wide-field setting selected (which doesn't appear to be the case) it's most likely to have been a 22° halo (i.e. 22° radius) as you'd be pushing it to get a 46° halo in view with that much field round it. Beautiful photos.

[AderynCoch]

22° halo taken today in Cairns (with adequate solar protection of course):

[Guest]

I took these shots of the din earlier today.

I thought them weird because of the sheer size of the halo , which took up 1/3 of the sky.

Sorry about the photos , they're from my mobile and it's the first time ive tried it.

They've actually come out quite well, sun halos can be tricky to capture, talking from experience!. It certainly looks like a 22º halo, they are quite common.