Magnus captured the unique light phenomena at the picture

When Magnus Edbäck was the home of their parents in order to eat lunch, noted his mother, the beautiful light outdoors. Magnus, who is fotointresserad, ran straight home and downloaded the camera.

" I saw that this was something out of the ordinary and was afraid that it would disappear quickly, he says to TT.

he was prompted to send the image to the international experts for the assessment and the Finnish halo-expert Marko Riikonen identified then the elements in the halon that have never previously been photographed.

the Components were detected when the image is tampered with the increased contrast, and a day later confirmed the French halo-theorist Nicolas Lefadeux to halokomponenten is new. Previously it has only been seen in computer simulations.

– In circuit for those who are interested in it here it is really exciting and fun, " says Weine Josefsson, klimatolog at SMHI.

relatively common, with haloes in Sweden. They appear when the many crystals of the same shape and size of the breaks the light of the sun and it is between 100 and 200 days per year.

But that so many haloes are visible at the same time, that the Magnus Edbäcks image, is unusual. And to discover the brand new components is even rarer.

– It is very rare that you do it at all, " says Weine Josefsson.

come to be named after Magnus.

" It feels incredibly awesome. It is hard to grasp, if it now becomes so. But it feels great that it may spread and can contribute to science like this, " says Magnus Edbäck.

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