New Arcs, Probably?

Hey guys! Just came here to report my latest sightings...

It's been quite a barren week of halos lately, just some amounts of 'em are seen... But it's starting to comeback, thankfully (or hopefully). I've just seen three halos from the last time I posted a blog/article. They are the 22-degree radius on the 15th; the 22-degree sundog on the morning and then the radius one after that on 17th; and another one on 9th, but I'm not sure what it is, between a circumscribed or a 22-degree... If it is a circumscribed, then it is my first time seeing it...

So here're the photos...

9th April sighting, either a 22-degree radius or a circumscribed halo, and what's left of it at noon

15th April sighting of a 22-degree radius halo

17th April sighting of a 22-degree radius halo, and probably a faint upper tangent arc, seen on the 3rd photo

Thank you for reading the post! Hope you enjoyed it~~

Halos & Sundogs

Hi everyone! I hereby announce that there're 3 halos since the last time I posted here! They're the usual solar/sun radius halo, lunar/moon radius halo, and sundogs!

The first one seen is the sun halo, on 2nd of April. It's quite faint, but it's visible on the naked eye... The second one is the sundog, on 5th April. The sundogs were very small, I have to check it on my camera. And after I checked it, I could just see it, only just visible to my naked eye. And then the last one is the moon halo, I saw it this morning (at dawn, actually). It is quite clear. I've actually seen one the night before - very, very clear, one of the clearest I've ever seen - and even though it is at night (the sky is dark), I could still see the spectral colors. Very wonderful sighting there, but it's a shame I couldn't photograph it - I'm going out for dinner back then, so I didn't bring my camera. When I finish eating, the cloud had already came in... Quite disappointed there...

So, here're the photos! Enjoy!

2nd April sighting of a partial 22-degree radius sun halo.

5th April sighting of 22-degree sundog/parhelia, just visible flanking the sun on each sides.

6th April sighting of a 22-degree radius lunar halo at dawn.

Oh, and another photo of the moon here. After the lunar halo faded, the sky is very clear - thus the moon is pretty much very clear also. Here's the photo of it. Just for a bonus... :)

Hope you enjoy this post! :D

Latest Sightings

As on the last post, my latest sightings are on 30th & 31st March. The 30th March sightings lasts more than half a day, with the halo can be seen as early as 7 am until as late as 2 pm. This is one of my clearest and longest sighting of a halo. And on the 31st, it's not as clear as on the 30th, it's pretty much very faint, but just visible enough with the naked eye, and I need to check it out on my camera to make sure.

Here are some photos of it... Enjoy!

30th March sightings of a 22-degree radius halo

31st March sighting of a 22-degree radius halo.

Documented Halos + Some Photos

Welcome back! Well, so in this post I'm going to tell you the sightings that I have documented since my first sighting on 25th of November 2011 to date.

Here's by far my documentation told me :

2011

November - 25th

December - 4th, 6th, 20th, 24th

2012

January - 17th-19th, 24th, 26th, 27th

February - 3rd-6th, 11th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 21st, 22nd

March (ongoing) - 3rd, 4th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 28th, 30th, 31st (today!)

Most of these sightings were for the usual 22-degree radius sun/moon halos, but I also have other arcs that I have seen, such as Upper Tangent Arc (UTA) on 5th & 21st of February '12, the 22-degree sundog on 20th December '11. There's also a parhelic circle captured on 3rd March '12. I hope I could see something more majestic, such as a Circumzenithal Arc (CZA) or Parry Arcs, but I guess my chances are limited in the tropical region where I live, though.

So here are some of my best photos of halo that I have taken... Enjoy!

The 22-degree radius moon halo and the corona, taken on 11th March, 2012.

The parhelic circle, taken on 3rd March, 2012.

The 22-degree radius halo, taken on 21st March, 2012.

The 22-degree radius halo and an upper tangent arc, taken on 21st March, 2012.

The 22-degree radius halo and a faint upper tangent arc, taken on 5th February, 2012.

The 22-degree radius halo and two sundogs/parhelion, taken on 20th December 2011.

An Obsession - Halo!

Hello everyone~~ It's been a long, long time since I updated this blog. I guess I'm too busy with college, or playing games too much to care about this silly blog of mine~~ The thing is, I have an obsession nowadays. If you've already seen my deviantart, this post is going to have the same topic with it - "halos". No, not an Indonesian language form of "hello", but an optical phenomenon. Yes, I'm obsessed with it. I'm awed by it's beautiful colors, of how it encircles the sun, and even probably have some more to offer! There's a good web if you're interested in it - atoptics.co.uk. There are a whole loads of explanations about halos there...

Probably from now on, I'm going to change what I'm going to post here - I 'm going to update on halo sightings that I saw from where I am. Well, currently I'm at Bandung, so probably most of it will come from there anyways. So, wait for my next posts, cause I'm going to upload many of my halo sighting photos from my laptop!

Hope you enjoy my blog~~!

A Person's Viewpoint

Hoho... Udah hampir 1 bulan ini gak posting... Hahaha... Pada akhirnya kita kembali ke fotografi... Entah kenapa belakangan ini jadi semangat banget kalo lagi membahas topik yang satu ini. Pengen beli kamera baru, tapi dengan nilai-nilai ulangan seperti sekarang hampir tidak memungkinkan ya...

Oke lah, stop basa-basi, kita lanjut ke fotografi!!!

Berikut foto-foto yang telah berhasil saya ambil selama vakum ngisi ini blog...
Hope you enjoyed it!

(foto drum yang diambil waktu CHESTER 2009)

(Foto tempat pensil, nggak nyangka lightingnya bisa jadi kayak gini)

(dua foto di atas diambil di TSI)

Sekian dulu ya foto2nya... Sebenernya sih kalo ngurut, foto paling bawah yang paling pertama diambilnya... Jadi foto yang paling baru ya foto pas CHESTER... Ahaha...

Sekian dulu post-nya... Tunggu yang selanjutnya ya!

Hobby : Photography!

Yah, kl misalnya ngeliat blog ini juga pasti udah ngerti, fotografi itu merupakan salah satu dari sekian banyak hobi yg gw miliki... Seneng gt rasanya, kl misalnya kita memotret sesuatu yang sebenarnya biasa... Tapi setelah dilihat hasilnya jadi luar biasa! Hahaha... Ya sudahlah kita lanjut balik lagi ke topik....

Karena sudah ngomong tentang fotografi, maka sudah jelas di sini bahwa saya akan mem-posting foto! Hahaha... Yah, cuma foto2 yang ada di deviantart gw aja sih, tp segitu aja cukup kok. Masing2 foto beda2... Hasilnya seperti tadi yg dibilang... Memotret sesuatu yg biasa tetapi hasilnya luar biasa... Harap2 yang pada baca blog ini juga mikir kayak gitu sih.

Silahkan menikmati foto2nya yaaa...

(foto bunga yang diambil saat mudik)

(foto batu yang ada di taman)

(foto tanaman yang ada di depan sekolah)

(foto kacang lebaran)

Sekian dulu yaaa...