SUN HALO CROWNED ON A SNOW PEAK

 SUN HALO CROWNED ON A SNOW PEAK

A quiet blaze sitting on the summit… and the sky answering with a perfect ring.

This is a sun halo / corona effect—light scattering through tiny ice crystals or ultra-fine cloud droplets in thin, high cloud layers.
When the particles are ice-crystal shaped, you often get a clean halo; when they’re tiny droplets, you get a softer corona. Either way, the colors show up because the light is being bent and diffracted, separating into warm golds and cooler blues in a smooth circular glow.

The mountain makes it look even more unreal because the sun is right on the peak line—so your eyes read it like a “spotlight” with a giant luminous aura around it.

Where you can see that:
You’ll catch this on days with thin, milky high clouds (or faint haze) when the sun is still visible—especially during cold mornings, winter sunsets, and in places with big open views like mountain passes, high deserts, open plains, and coastal horizons.