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OUR FATHER IS THE FATHER OF CELESTIAL LIGHTS, WHERE THERE IS EVERY GOOD GIFT AND PERFECT PRESENT! - DON'T FORGET HE IS WITH US! WHO WILL BE AGAINST US? NO ONE IN HEAVEN OR EARTH ~

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(James 1:17) . . .Every good gift and every perfect present is from above, for it comes down from the Father of the [celestial] lights, and with him there is not a variation of the turning of the shadow."

Atmospheric optics turn sunlight into a celestial display as seen from Summit Station in Greenland on Oct. 14. Ed Stockard, one of the workers at the federally funded research station, says the display includes a halo, sun dogs, an upper tangent arc and more. "My eyelashes froze together, and my cheeks were getting nipped pretty good," Stockard writes.

By Alan Boyles
Is this heaven? No, it's Greenland — lit up by a dazzling display of refracted sunlight.

These pictures are from Ed Stockard, who's part of the team at Summit Station on the peak of the Greenland ice cap. The research facility, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, serves as an observation post for the complex interactions between the atmosphere and one of the world's biggest reservoirs of ice.

The station is also an observation post for sky phenomena ranging from the northern lights to sun halos. And judging by his Flickr photo gallery, Stockard is getting an eyeful this season.

But there's more than meets the eye: Over at the Atmospheric Optics website, Les Cowley points out 11 separate optical phenomena that are on display. The combination of halos, arcs, sun dogs and a sun pillar has earned Stockard's Arctic scene a place as the Optics Picture of the Day.

You don't have to live in the Arctic to see the sun's weird effects. In midnorthern latitudes, this time of year brings misty days, and even some days when ice crystals hang in the air. That's prime time for halos, sun bows and moon bows, fog bows and more.

Cowley's website guides you through all the magic that the air can provide — and for still more examples of that magic at work, click on the links below.
 

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/19/__utma=238145375.993224729.1347141046.1350878253.1350917302.7&__utmb=238145375.3.10.1350917302&__utmc=238145375&__utmx=-&__utmz=238145375.1350878253.6.4.utmcsr=nbcnews.com

 

 

 

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