Ring around the Moon: Lunar Halo
Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by admin in Space
Ring around the Moon.
Florida, December 1, 2009 – Ring around the Moon or Lunar Halo was seen by stargazers Sunday night. The moon appeared in the night sky with a soft, bright ring around it.
The “lunar halo” is caused by refracted moonlight from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere of the earth, the shape of the ice crystals atmosphere focuses the refracted light into a ring.
If you try to looked closely, you could see a rainbow colors inside the ring. Mostly, lunar halos are soft white and lack vivid colors.
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