parhelia in English

noun
1
a bright spot in the sky appearing on either side of the sun, formed by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals high in the earth's atmosphere.
Haloes may be accompanied by a whole array of circumzenithal arcs and parhelion (mock suns).
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1. 22° solar halo with parhelia and rare lower tangent arc at South Pole, 12 January 2009.