mock sun

noun

1. parhelion.

mock sun

noun

1. See parhelion
   another name for parhelion

Example Sentences

The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun.

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Beyond that again is a lens which throws an enlarged image of the aperture on the screen, which we may call our mock sun.

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The Mock-Sun, all white, and far less shining, than the two others.

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A parhelion or mock sun observed near Marienburg in western Prussia.

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One is a representation of snow crystals, and the other is a diagram of a mock sun.

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