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If you're curious about the lights, they're real optical phenomena in the group of halos (pretty straightforward name). Depicted here:

"sun dogs" (or "parhelions," to the sides here),

Parry arc (the top inner "horns"),

circumzenithal arc (top outer "horns"),

sun pillar (vertical lens flare on the light),

parhelic circle (horizontal curve),

upper tangent arc (outer ring),

and a plain ol halo (inner ring).

The Guide by Maéna Paillet