mock sun

American  

noun

1. parhelion.

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mock sun British  

noun

1. another name for parhelion

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mock sun

There, even nature offers litle solace; the aurora borealis, a ghostly disturbance flickering in the sky, appears as a "mock sun" that offers light but no heat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sun, which was barely clear of the horizon, was itself a deep red, on either side and above it was a red mock sun and a rainbow-tinted halo connected the three mock suns.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

And was he only a mock sun swimming in a firmament of glories which he could have outshone?

From Visionaries by Huneker, James

At each point of contact occurs a parhelion which is a mock sun of brilliant colors and called a sun-dog.

From Reading the Weather by Longstreth, Thomas Morris

The Banks Islanders make sunshine by means of a mock sun.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir