Anthelion

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

An anthelion (plural anthelia, from late Greek ανθηλιος, "opposite the sun") is a rare optical phenomenon of the halo family. It appears on the parhelic circle opposite to the Sun as a faint white spot, not unlike a sundog, and may be crossed by an X-shaped pair of diffuse arcs.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Anthelion”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Mats Halldin 08:01, 3 May 2007 (UTC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.