Saw this when I took the dogs out for their late night walk. It was rather splendid. Seemed to be caused by the moonlight shining through a fine, freezing mist.
Moon halos are a sign of high thin cirrus clouds drifting 20,000 feet or more above our heads. These clouds contain millions of tiny ice crystals. The halos you see are caused by both refraction, or splitting of light, and also by reflection, or glints of light from these ice crystals. The crystals have to be oriented and positioned just so with respect to your eye, in order for the halo to appear.
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As much as I dislike winter and cold, it sure does allow for some beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing!
Kind of an ominous sight. Zombie apocalypse, anyone?
ShadowRun300 - Glad you like it.
Abby - Or alien invasion?
That is so cool!
Moon halos are a sign of high thin cirrus clouds drifting 20,000 feet or more above our heads. These clouds contain millions of tiny ice crystals. The halos you see are caused by both refraction, or splitting of light, and also by reflection, or glints of light from these ice crystals. The crystals have to be oriented and positioned just so with respect to your eye, in order for the halo to appear.
SO cool! We had some pretty spectacular full moons this week too.
Beautiful! I have only seen this once before, years ago in Costa Rica. It was literally like a rainbow, but a moonbow.
A full moon can be a spectacular sight.
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