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Map of the world on Mercator's projection

Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, 48.5 x 37.5 cm, J. Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula. / Amstelodami Apud Iudocum Hondium / Franscoys huys. Amsterdam

World Map of the Railway and Telegraph Network Density at 1900. Copy from Andrees Handatlas 1901, S. 17 Kolonial- und Weltverkehrskarte

<br>Name of photo's author: Unknown<br>This photo was taken in: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

$The Earth's atmosphere refracts the sunlight, causing the sun's disk to appear squashed$

w:Point Reyes National Seashore is seen above Fata Morgana of sea surface

Mock mirage Moon set sequence The images were taken in San Francisco.

Mock w:mirage sunset w:sunspot#1010 and a w:gull. Both umbra and penumbra of w:sunspot are seen on the image

Mock Mirage and w:Brown Pelicans,P. occidentalis carolinensis in San Francisco.

Complex Mock w:mirage sunset in San Francisco.

Mirage on the sea near Penglai,Shandong.

Mirage in Libyan desert between Aswan and Abu Simbel, Egypt

Sunset MirageHere's how Andy Young (a mirage specialist his Green Flash page )comments the sunset:

Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco in fog and Sutro Tower

Fata Morgana off the Belgian coast (Middelkerke town). The black bars are probably distant ships that were vertically stretched.

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Iridescent clouds in Round Rock & Austin, Texas on July 31, 2008.

Copy from the 1630s by Jacob Elbfas of an original painting from 1535 by Urban mГҐlare, depicting a halo display event.
The visible haloes are:

22 В° halo, at upper right (should be centered on the Sun)
parhelic circle, large white circle (centered on the zenith: appears 'horizontal' in the sky)
parhelia including 2 sundogs, 2 120В° parhelia and the anthelion (dots on the parhelic circle, resp. nearest to farthest from the Sun)
upper tangent arc and possible Parry arc (2 crossing arcs just left of the 22В° halo (actually 'above' the 22В°, in the sky); not realistically shown)
circumzenithal arc, smaller crescent inside the parhelic circle (also centered on the zenith: appears 'horizontal', high in the sky)
infralateral arc (bottom right)

Note that the whole sky appears strongly tilted in the image: the upper right corner is actually down in the sky (when looking towards the Sun), the zenith is at the center of the circumzenithal arc and parhelic circle.
This may result from the artist's choice to represent the display in a realistic orientation relative to the landscape: in this case the sun would have shone from 3/4 back to the right of an observer facing the city.
The relative brightnesses of the haloes are quite accurate.

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Late afternoon under a blizzard warning in SW Minnesota sundogs began to appear over a farm in Minneota.

Sundog reflected in the ball of the ceremonial south pole, about 5 pm, Jan 18, 2010

Point du Hoc during sunrise (showing a Sun dog effect) in early January 2009.

Parhelio en Santiago de Compostela. Sun Dog in Compostela

An illustration that shows halo phenomena around the sun.

The artist depicts three lunar halos in this woodcut.

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This halo was observed around the sun, around 11:30 am at Chennai, on July 09 ,2009.

Halo phenomena at the sunset, from the far north of Sweden close to the Arctic Circle

Sun Halo appeared in Padang,Indonesia two days after The 7,6 Magnitude Earthquake destroyed surrounding areas, captured on October 02nd,2009 11.09 AM

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46В° Halo or supralateral arc (cannot make a positive ID) photographed in FalkГ¶ping Sweden in the winter of 2002/2003. Equipment: 35 mm film, 16 mm Fish-eye. Perspective corrected with PTGui

Sundogs in Fargo, North Dakota. Taken February 18th, 2009.

Mock mirage sunset sequence with Green Flashes The images were taken in San Francisco. The incert in the lower right is a C1 class solar flare photographed at the same day with a solar telescope. All images were taken by me and combined together in photo shop.

Mock mirage sunset sequence with Green Flash in the second and fourth frame. The images were taken in San Francisco.

Mock mirage sunset sequence The images were taken in San Francisco.

Mock w:mirage sunset sequence with Green Flashes

Mock mirage and Green flash in San Francisco.

Mock mirage sunset sequence with Green Flashes. Sunspot #1010 is seen at the first frame.

Green flash, seen from La Silla Observatory (ESO) on October 15th, 2005. The image has not been modified in any way.

Complex mock mirage with Green Flashin San Francisco.

Mock mirage sunset with a rather brightGreen Flash in San Francisco.

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The sun setting behind w:Golden Gate Bridge demonstrates green rim in San Francisco.

Some of Green Flash observed in San Francisco in 2007 All of them are mock mirage green flash.

Dutch image about the formation of a Green Flash

Superior mirage and Green flash in San Francisco.

Image of a double green flash observed from Point Reyes, CA. The first flash is of the sub-duct type, whereas the second brief flash toward the end of the sequence is of the mock-mirage type.

$Solar glory at the steam from hot springs at Yellowstone National Park.A glory is an optical phenomenon produced by light backscattered (a combination of w:diffraction, reflection and w:refraction) towards its source by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets.$

A shadow of w:helicopter inside solar glory around w:Mauna Loa

Fog bow with Glory on the Pfaffenstein near Eisenerz, Styria, Austria

In this image, the swirling clouds known as vortex streets appear along the left edge of the image, stretching southward from Isla Guadalupe. Southeast of the vortex street, a glory, which resembles a rainbow, hovers above the cloud cover. The glory is faint but large, 200 to 300 kilometres long, along a north-south orientation. In this glory, reds and oranges are most visible.

$Being a frequent flier and interested in optics means that I often see glories. They are due to sunlight almost turned 180 degrees around by cloud droplets, producing colorful rings and a circle of light around the airplane shadow. This is not due to normal reflection or refraction as in rainbows and halos, but is thought to result from surface wave effects that allow light striking the edge of droplets to bend around the droplet. The optics gets rather involved, as seen in www.philiplaven.com/p2c1a.html$

Glory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon) ) around the shadow of our plane, on the way from Bergamo to Budapest.

The picture shows solar glory, Spectre of the Brocken and Fog Bow

Glory, optical phenomenon, seen opposite the sun in water droplet clouds, photographed from a plane over Salt Lake City, USA. Photo taken with iPhone.

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$Corona around the Moon due to diffraction by the clouds$

$Diffraction Corona around the highlights$

Partial Solar Coronae, Iridescent Fog and Fog Shadow over the South Tower of Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco.

Partial Solar Coronae, w:Iridescent w:Fog and Fog Shadows over the South Tower of Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco.

Very delicate foggy solar coronae and its reflection, San Francisco.

$The diffraction of sunlight by trees at Sunset, forming this colors of rainbow.$

Forest Solar Solar Coronae,San Francisco.

Solar Solar Coronae and Fog Shadow.The South Tower ofGolden Gate Bridge San Francisco is seen in the upper left corner.

My first shot with my new Canon 350D, a solitary leaf hanging in the cold winder sky. Shot in Melbourne, Australia.

A Solar Glory and a Brocken spectre from the top of Crib Goch, Wales

The picture was taken from Golden Gate Bridge. The picture shows solar glory. The Spectre of the Brocken was also present, but it is hard to see because of the shadow of the Bridge.

The picture shows solar glory, Spectre of the Brocken and partial Fog bow

The picture was taken from Golden Gate Bridge. The picture shows solar glory, Spectre of the Brocken and Fog Bow

The picture was taken from Golden Gate Bridge. The picture shows solar glory, Spectre of the Brocken and Fog Bow as well as the North Tower of Golden Gate Bridge.

The picture shows partial Fog bow and Fog shadow of a tree.Golden Gate Bridge is seen in the fog at the rihgt-hand side of the image.

From the window of the airplane, one can see the wing at the top and a rainbow at the bottom, encircling the shadow of the airplane.

A blank world map including all 195 countries plus Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

English:Actual (2008) living and breeding areas of the Sypheotides indicus (green), and former living and breeding area of the Sypheotides indicus (yellow). Source: [1]

Physical World Map; Robinson projection; Standard parallels 38В°N and 38В°S.

Satellite composition of the whole Earth's surface.

Tabula Rogeriana, 1154 - upside-down with north oriented up

German Empire. Netherlands, Belgium & Switzerland. Overview.

David Rumsey publicly licenses this historic image under the Creative Commons License вЂ” David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. Official license

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The Da Ming Hun Yi Tu (Great Ming Dynasty Amalagamated Map), painted on silk in AD 1389 but with Manchu language captions superimposed on paper slips several centuries later, is the oldest surviving Chinese world map.

World map of oceans : blank version, jpeg version.

The right part of Impossible Black Tulip.

Unattributed, very detailed, two page colored edition (1604?), copy of the 1602 map Kunyu Wanguo Quantu by Matteo Ricci at the request of the Wanli Emperor. This digitalization of the map is of a Japanese export copy of the original Chinese version, with phonetic annotations in Katakana for foreign place names outside of the Sinic world, predominantly around Europe, Russia and the Near East.

First official geographic atlas of the Russian Empire (1745). World map.

World map according to ideas by Posidonius (150-130 B.C.), drawn by 16th century cartographers Petrus Bertius & Melchior Tavernier in 1628. Many of the details in this map couldn't have been known by Posidonius, rather, Bertius and Tavernier show Posidonius' ideas about the positions of the continents

19th century reconstruction of World map according to Strabo (18 A.D.).

Isothermal chart, or, View of climates & productions / drawn from the accounts of Humboldt & others, by W.C. Woodbridge.
Notes: Relief shown by hachures. Note 2.)

Weltkarte des Andreas Walsperger von 1448

Russian Cosmography lubok engraving, early 18th century. North is on the left-bottom (diagonally); center of map is Constantinople, Asia Minor and Black Sea.

World map - Ptolemaisch General Tafel - Produced in Basle, the original is B/W
FIRST edition : 1540
Original size : 25.3 x 34.5 cm
Production procedure : Woodcut

Pillars of Hercules Monument, Jew's Gate, Gibraltar.

Orbis Terrarum, aus: J. D. KГ¶hler: Descriptio orbis antiqui in XLIV tabulis exhibita, NГјrnberg, Chr. Weigel, (1720)

This is an image of Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630, and published the following year in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix.

New and 'most accurate' world map, by J.Bleau.

Reproduction of the globe of Martin Behaim, 1492.

Mapa de Pomponio Mela segГєn Petrus BertГus siglo XVII.

World map from the Liber Floridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer.

Engraved world map (including magnetic declination lines) by Leonhard Euler from his school atlas

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