They are also called halos or
parhelia (meaning "beside the sun").
They shine to either side of the central blaze, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the
parhelia sometimes seen on either side of the Sun.
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Parhelia, Millennium P-Series, and QID graphics cards.
In his edition of Descartes' "The World" (Mahoney, Ed) New York: Abaris Books, pxv-xvii, 1979, Michael Mahoney suggests that Descartes had a mechanical insight of unity, of a world machine, from working on
parhelia and other meteorological phenomena.
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Parhelia at Flip 7.
Simple numerical expansions are also characteristic, e.g., the multiple births running from two to ten,(53) or
parhelia (mock suns) numbering from one to four,(54) some of which seem to be beyond the range of the empirically verfiable.
Often accompanying solar halos are the sundogs or
parhelia pictured on the facing page.
Granger entitled 'A Curious Sky Phenomenon', (concerning
parhelia and phenomena of light effects as seen from an aircraft).
For example, we occasionally see yellows and greens in
parhelia, the patches of light that can appear 22[degrees] or more to either side of the Sun.