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Updated: May 24, 2025
It is simply an optical effect, a variety of the phenomenon called 'anthelia, like Ulloa's Circle and the famous 'Spectre of the Brocken." "Explain it how you will," rejoined Miss Carmichael, "to me it is an emblem of hope. It cheers my heart." "I am very glad to hear it, and I should be very sorry to crush your hopes," said Gazen pleasantly.
His fine, austere features and graceful figure were enlarged into a vast, god-like apparition, with a halo of bright colours shining like a glory around his head, and a fainter circle of rainbow hues framing his whole form. It was the first anthelia that the lovely girl had seen, and it filled her with wonder and awe. Theirs was a strange courtship Spero's and Iclea's.
Before coming to the anthelia, properly so called, or to the colored rings which appear around a shadow, it is as well first to note the effects produced on the clouds and mists that are facing the sun when it rises or sets.
He said that it is called the Anthelia. It arises from the rays of the sun thrown on the concave and convex surfaces of the dew-drops, each particle furnishing a double reflection. The halo is caused chiefly, I fancy, by the contrast of the excessively dark shadow with the surrounding brightness.
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