Winter halo this AM. On my partners morning job.
R
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First I’ve ever seen, didn’t even know about them until today. My other half looked up moon halo. Found out its ice crystal causes that particular refraction.
So cool.
R.
Beautiful. Should be a song title.
(dozens of fingers now searching Spotify! ).
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Ooh, let us know what you find.
R.
cool photo otherwise known as a moon dog!
A moon dog (or moondog) or mock moon, also called a paraselene (plural paraselenae) in meteorology, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Moon. They are exactly analogous to sun dogs.
Moon dogs are caused by the refraction of moonlight by hexagonal-plate-shaped ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. They typically appear as a pair of faint patches of light, at around 22° to the left and right of the Moon, and at the same altitude ...