parhelion

• A perfect paraselene is, I am convinced, an extremely rare thing, much rarer than a perfect parhelion ("moon-cats" my companion thought the phenomenon should be called, saving the canine simile for the sun), for in seven years' travel I have never seen another, and the references to it in literature are few The next day at noon, the sun not visible above the distant mountains, there appeared in the sky a great shining cross of orange light, just over the sun's position, that held and shone for nigh an hour and only faded with the twilight. —  Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
• For all the baleful-looking parhelion, god Apollo dispenses the day. —  The Confidence-Man
• Outside was another halo, with four other moons Sometimes during the summer we see the parhelion, a similar phenomenon of the sun. —  The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
• During the afternoon, the sun occasionally gleamed through a tract of cirro-stratus cloud and there was a very fine parhelion: signs of an approaching blizzard. —  The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
• The sundog, the parhelic circle and the 120 degree parhelion: and the 120 degree parhelion shining brightly. —  Jonstraveladventures

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