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🌈 Iridescent Cloud Corona: Mie Diffraction by Droplets, Ring Radius vs Droplet Size and Mother-of-Pearl Colour

A flat sky view of the coloured corona around the Sun or Moon: ring radius is 1.22 wavelength over droplet diameter, computed from Mie theory with size spread and cloud optical depth, plus live graphs and checks.

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Iridescent Cloud Corona: Mie Diffraction by Droplets, Ring Radius vs Droplet Size and Mother-of-Pearl Colour ↗ Open standalone
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A flat sky view of the coloured corona around the Sun or Moon: ring radius is 1.22 wavelength over droplet diameter, computed from Mie theory with size spread and cloud optical depth, plus live graphs and checks.

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