The Moon just now in the UK. No idea what is creating the halo
That would be a 22° halo, a fairly uncommon atmospheric phenomenon where light refracts through hexagonal ice crystals in the atmosphere resulting in an average deviation from the angle it comes in at by around (funnily enough) 22°.
There are lots of other interesting atmospheric phenomena including sundogs, moonbows, and the much rarer 46° halo!
Oh nice, I’ve seen this before in Florida but was unable to capture it in my phone’s camera. Didn’t realise it had a name!
sundogs
You’re just making things up now XD
Though it sounds silly, sundogs are the name of an actual optic phenomena. They appear as bright spots on either side of the sun, aligned with where the halo may appear. Hence, they are “dogging” the sun.
Yarp, I looked it up. The etymology section is fun, I like to think there’s no real meaning behind it, someone just called it that and the name stuck.
No, that’s updog.
We saw the same tonight as well from northern Italy about 2 hours ago. The moonlight interacts with ice crystals in the air and creates this rainbow / halo 🤯
Yeah, if there’s an atoptics (I think that’s the word) community, they’d be all over that!
I just took a picture of the moon, came out pretty good.
Wow that really is good
That’s just an even bigger moon behind it
Moonbow!
“A ring around the sun or moon, means that rain will come real soon.” Old sailors adage.
Have Spartans recently landed nearby perhaps?
Also that’s Jupiter on the right, we got Uranus on Friday
It’s just moonlight shining through the buildup of the day’s chemtrails.
