I was walking this evening between my aunts' houses and looked at the big bright full moon. What I noticed was a ring around it. It looked like the clouds had formed a perfect circle with the moon in its center. I don't know what it was, I don't know exactly how to describe and I don't even know how to take a picture of it, but it is quite a beautiful and peculiar sight.
Anyone have any ideas what this phenomenon is called?
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The largest full of 2010.
ReplyDeleteI've seen this before too, and it's very exciting to experience! It's called a moon ring, which is the most boring and unimaginative name that scientists could give a phenomenon.
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22ยบ halo sounds like a way more interesting name.
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It was beautiful...maybe we were looking at it at the same time ;)
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