Paraselene

Word PARASELENE
Character 10
Hyphenation par a se le ne
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Paraselene"

What do we mean by paraselene?

A luminous spot on a lunar halo. noun

A bright spot on a lunar halo, produced by refraction through a preponderating number of ice-crystals floating perpendicularly or vertically; a mock moon. noun

A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. parhelion. noun

A bright, circular spot, sometimes seen on a lunar halo, caused by refraction through ice crystals noun

A bright, circular spot, sometimes seen on a lunar halo, caused by refraction through ice crystals

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The word "paraselene" in example sentences

When there are two suns visible, or two moons, the real one and its duplicate, we call the mock sun a _parhelios_, and the mock moon a _paraselene_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Of such are the records of auroral displays, parhelions, paraselene, lunar halos, fog bows, irridescent clouds, refracted images of mountains and mirage generally. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

Beneath the glamour of the magic night, the weird paraselene of the moon's phenomenon, the glow of the volcano, the noises, the men whispered of one thing only -- Gold! ❋ Stockton [Illustrator] Mulford (1906)

A perfect paraselene is, I am convinced, an extremely rare thing, much rarer than a perfect parhelion ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)

This morning it was calm and clear save for a light misty veil of ice crystals through which the moon shone with scarce clouded brilliancy, surrounded with bright cruciform halo and white paraselene. ❋ Robert Falcon Scott (1890)

All day it has been blowing hard, 30 to 60 miles an hour; it has never looked very dark overhead, but a watery cirrus has been in evidence for some time, causing well marked paraselene. ❋ Robert Falcon Scott (1890)

On the evening of November 11, there was a brilliant paraselene, two distinct halos and eight false moons being visible in the southern sky. ❋ Unknown (1888)

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