List of atmospheric optical phenomena explained

Atmospheric optical phenomena include:

• Afterglow
• Airglow
• Alexander's band, the dark region between the two bows of a double rainbow.
• Alpenglow
• Anthelion
• Anticrepuscular rays
• Aurora (northern and southern lights, aurora borealis and aurora australis)
• Belt of Venus
• Brocken Spectre
• Circumhorizontal arc
• Circumzenithal arc
• Cloud iridescence
• Crepuscular rays
• Earth's shadow
• Earthquake lights
• Glories
• Green flash
• Halos, of Sun or Moon, including sun dogs
• Haze
• Heiligenschein or halo effect, partly caused by the opposition effect
• Ice blink
• Light pillar
• Lightning
• Mirages (including Fata Morgana)
• Monochrome Rainbow
• Moon dog
• Moonbow
• Nacreous cloud/Polar stratospheric cloud
• Rainbow
• Sprite (lightning)
• Subsun
• Sun dog
• Tangent arc
• Tyndall effect
• Upper-atmospheric lightning, including red sprites, Blue jets, and ELVES
• Water sky

See also

See main article: category and Atmospheric optical phenomena.