Ring-Around-The-Moon

[Xzavia]

Anyone else see it??? I tried getting some pics but I can't get the rings to show up in the pic, I know they are there but they just don't show up in the pic.

Folklore has it that it indicates a storm coming. Pretty neat to see, it's one huge ring!

[verotik66]

i was just out taking some pics, lol had a shooting star come down right beside the moon and then a plane flew right in front as well lol, look in the photo section in about 10 min

[gewgaw]

yeah i just saw it in the driveway here... the moon is directly in the centre of the big halo./.. looks like a big eye looking down

[gewgaw]

you would need a pretty strong camera to get pics of that

[verotik66]

http://www.soonet.ca/showthread.php?p=415668&posted=1#post415668

[gewgaw]

Anyone else see it??? I tried getting some pics but I can't get the rings to show up in the pic, I know they are there but they just don't show up in the pic.

Folklore has it that it indicates a storm coming. Pretty neat to see, it's one huge ring!

If thats true that would be kinda spooky cause this morning i just had a dream of a big storm coming (in my dream)

[Xzavia]

http://www.soonet.ca/showthread.php?p=415668&posted=1#post415668


Those are great! Thanks for sharing them!!

[Barney Rubble]

The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is almost always the same size.

Folklore has it that a ring around the moon signifies bad weather is coming, and in many cases this may be true. So how can rings around the moon be a predictor of weather to come? The ice crystals that cover the halo signify high altitude, thin cirrus clouds that normally precede a warm front by one or two days. Typically, a warm front will be associated with a low pressure system which is commonly referred to as a storm.

It is believed that the number of stars within a moon halo indicate the number days before bad weather will arrive. Give it a try the next time you observe a moon halo.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/moonring4.jpg

[dodgegirl]

Thank you Xzavia and Verotik66 for posting this. I myself seen this a few weeks back and was woundering what it was about there were actually two around the moon. I pointed out to the mr, tried to take pics but they did not show up.

Now I know. Thank you.

[crazymamma]

nice