Richmond Enquirer

PHENOMENA
Boston, January 8—On Saturday about noon two very brilliant Parhelia (Mock Suns) and a beautiful Corona attracted the attention of numerous spectators. The Mock-Suns were equidistant from the Sun (by conjecture about 20° East and West of it) with comas, or trains, extending in opposite directions from the luminary, five or six times their diameter, which appeared to the eye a little less than the apparent diameter of the sun. The Corona was estimated to be about 30° to the northward of the sun, and nearly in our zenith, and exhibited all the bright colors of the rainbow, the inside next the sun being red. The color of the Parhelia was orange, or color of white pine. The Corona formed an arc of about a quarter of a circle; and between it and the sun was a segment less brilliant and defined. The atmosphere was unusually clear, and the space between the mock suns, and the real sun, was a perfect blue expanse, without the least appearance of the vapour and spiculae which must have occasioned the phenomena. We noticed them nearly an hour, when they gradually disappeared, "leaving a cloudless sky."
The phenomena was observed at Salem. [Cent. * Sailors we believe, call them dog suns.