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A complete, 360-degree fog bow,
created by the headlights
of a car in fog.

The Brocken spectre
and glory
         are also
     present.








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     A fog bow, solar glory and Brocken spectre observed in San Francisco.


         THEORY


        Glories are not conclusively understood.



         GLORIES IN CULTURE


        C.T.R. Wilson saw a glory while working
        as a temporary observer
        at the Ben Nevis weather station.
        Inspired by the impressive sight,
        he decided to build a device for
        creating clouds in the laboratory,
        so that he could make
   
        a     synthetic,
        small
        scale
                    glory.
       

        His work led directly to the cloud chamber,
        a device for detecting ionizing radiation
        for which he and Arthur Compton
        received the Nobel Prize
        for physics
        in 1927.