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A bright, often colored spot beside the sun, produced when sunlight refracts through atmospheric ice crystals.
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Name a bright ice-crystal halo beside the sun.A real optical effect that can make an ordinary winter sky feel uncanny without supernatural explanation.
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- a sundog beside the sun
- bright sundog
- sundog in cirrus clouds
- sundog beside the sun
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A sundog glimmered beside the low winter sun, bright as a bead of glass.
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A sundog is an atmospheric halo phenomenon associated with ice crystals, often appearing as a bright patch to either side of the sun.
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