The halo around the moon isn't from my camera, you can see it with the naked eye. It looks amazing. I've never seen such a thing before. What is it? Taken in the UK right now (20:35)
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1j7h17y
The halo around the moon isn't from my camera, you can see it with the naked eye. It looks amazing. I've never seen such a thing before. What is it? Taken in the UK right now (20:35)
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1j7h17y
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A halo around the moon, also known as a lunar halo, is caused by light from the moon refracting through ice crystals in cirrus clouds
[22° halo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%C2%B0_halo)
22° halo is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a halo with an apparent radius of approximately 22° around the Sun or Moon. It forms as sunlight or moonlight is refracted by millions of hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
I see these often, they’re caused by ice crystals in the air refracting the moonlight. I see them around the sun sometimes too, in the winter.
It’s also called a moon dog I believe. I have a picture of one I saw. Neat!
After significant study, a panel of experts has confirmed it as: The Moon.
If you are alive, then it is ice crystals in the upper atmosphere reflecting moonlight.
If you are dead…then head that direction.
My wife and I call it a 360 Moonbow or Halo. Occasionally see it in the winter when there are ice crystals way up.
From Wikipedia that explains it better than I could.
A 22° halo is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a halo with an apparent radius of approximately 22° around the Sun or Moon. Around the Sun, it may also be called a sun halo. Around the Moon, it is also known as a moon ring, storm ring, or winter halo. It forms as sunlight or moonlight is refracted by millions of hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Its radius, as viewed from Earth, is roughly the length of an outstretched hand at arm’s length
I’ve seen halo effect with naked eye. More than once actually. And mostly around winter time.
Moonlight White
White Like Eyes
Not Eyes But Blood
I Drown In Him
r/local58
Saw a wonderful perfect circle tonight in South Wales UK (unusual for us to have clear skies)
Light refracting off of the ice crystals in the atmosphere around the lit moon.
I had seen it before because it is a lunar halo and it is amazing to look in the Sky at night during different moon phases
I don’t recall the atmospheric conditions involved but this is a natural phenomenon. I remember watching the moon on such nights from back when I was a kid.
It’s a halo around the moon or a lunar halo.
*fuzzy story* My father told us kids before he died that if we saw a halo around the moon that it was him telling us he loved us.
Hijo de la luna.
It’s the corona that forms around the moon if moonlight refracts through clouds
Not only are these common, whether clouds are above or not, but the halo’s presence usually indicates a change in weather soon.
That’s called The Moon, it was installed at the end of the Biden administration and Trump is committed to having it removed.
It only happens when you’re drunk and it’s cold outside
I was seeing a similar one tonight in Spain and just asked a friend about this phenomenon. Thanks for posting this question! It looked really amazing here and very clear to. Here it seemed like the clouds themselves formed a halo around the moon, so weird and cool. Then the clouds shifted and there was still a halo but not a perfect ‘ring’ of cloud around the moon. Mesmerising!
Yup. Moon dog. You should expect some change in weather in the next few days , like rain or snow.
Noticed the same thing! It blew me away, haha.
I’m no space scientist, but I’m almost certain that’s the moon.
I remember seeing it for the first time while on vacation near the equator. I thought it must be a rare phenomenon or something you’d only see where there is more humidity in the air. Now I see it around the moon fairly often when I look for it. Our brains are amazing and perplexing like that.
OP may I ask how old you are?
I am not trying to be witty or sassy, but it’s kinda odd that you have never seen this before as it happens quite frequently. So I have to assume that you are very young, which is why you haven’t noticed this enough times before.
That is the moon. It is a giant piece of rock that orbits the earth. We visited it for the first time in 1969.
wait until you see it during the day around the sun.
Literally, google Halo around the moon. Takes much less effort than coming here and also much more credible.