Topical philately: Atmospheric Halos in Stamps

 
Since I have collected stamps for a long time I already some times ago (1998) searched for stamps which shows halos or halo-like illustrations. However, I did not start to search those stamps until recently. So I decided to list here all stamps I know illustrate atmospheric halos. It turn out that halos are rare in stamps. Rainbow is much more common feature, so this list is quite short. If you know more of these, please contact me. 

• Here you can find stamps with ice crystals.
• Stamps with other halo like features.

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

Subject: Parahelion
Postage: 1$

A stamps with clear focus on halos. Parhelion, parhelic circle and possibly sun pillar are shown.

Subject: 25th Anniversary Antarctic Treaty 1986 - Prince Charles Mountains near Mawson Station

Postage: 36c
Issued: 1986

A landscape with a 22° halo on background.

 BRITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

Subject: Lower Atmospheric Phenomena: Sun Pillar at Faraday

Postage: 14 pence
Issued: 22 Dec 1992

A sun pillar above Faraday station.

This and the next stamps are part of four stamps series with two halo stamps. Other two stamps have clouds. FDC (First Day Cover) illustration of this series has a sun pillar.

Subject: Lower Atmospheric Phenomena: Halo (22°) with Iceberg

Postage: 29 pence
Issued: 22 Dec 1992

Nice halo stamp with photograph like illustration with a nice 22° halo.

 CANADA

CHILE

Postage: 45 c
Issued: 1995

In the background photo there is a mediocre parhelion on left.

Correos de Chile
Postage: 40 cts - airmail stamp

Airplane above landscape where is two circles around setting or rising sun. Some kind of 22° and 46° halo like situation, but not sure if artist have had halos in mind when drew this stamp.

 FALKLAND ISLANDS DEPENDENCIES

Subject: Discovery 1925-27

Postage: 6 pence

Issued: 1 Feb 1954

Discovery sailing ship with a classic Antarctic halo display illustration as a background. Halos in the stamps are 22° halo, 22° upper arc, 46° halo and parhelic circle.

Subject: Discovery 1925-27 and Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958

Postage: 6 pence

Same stamps as previous but this is overprinted with text "Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958".

 FRENCH ANTARCTICA

 LIECHTENSTEIN

Issued: 2 Jan 1995

A stamp with sun pillar and parhelia.

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Issued: 19 Nov 2007

A stamp with lunar 22° halo in a three stamps set.

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 THE SOVIET UNION - CCCP

Subject: Arktika

Postage: 3 ruples
Issued: 1949

An diving airplane as a silhuet agains the sun. Around the sun 22° halo with sun pillar. A strange looking brightening on top and on bottom of  the 22° halo.

Subject: Vostok station

Postage: 16 kop.
Issued: 1965

Vostok Antarctic station with a (lunar?) 22° halo on the sky.

Subject: E.T. Krenkel (1903-1971)

Postage: 4 kop.
Issued: 1973

Stamp for E.T. Krenkel, a Soviet Artic explorer and a Hero of the Soviet Union. There is in a up left corner a sun or moon with a halo like ring almost all the way around it. That is so halo like feature that it probably is based on halo. 

 UNITED STATES of AMERICA

Issued: 4 Oct 2004

One stamps in a series of weather cloud stamps has a photo with full 22° halo.

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