mock sun

How to use mock sun in a sentence

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

  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index | Various

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

  Colour Measurement and Mixture | W. de W. Abney

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

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 | Various

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

  The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell

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

  The Pictorial Press | Mason Jackson