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Who saw the circle around the moon last night?

Did you guys see the Circle around the Moon !? What was that ??It was scary. Everyone was talking about it . Does anybody know what that

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Answer #1

the old tymers would call that ring around the moon a sign of bad weather coming in a few days. Like rain or SNOW.

Answer #2

was it like this-

Answer #3

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.

Less typical are the halos that may be produced by different angles in the crystals. They can create halos with an angle of 46 degrees.

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Answer #4

Refracted light from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere.

Answer #5

could be polution… in large citys, you can get purpleish brown rings around it… just from its light reflecting from gasses

Answer #6

I added a photo , cudnt have come out

Answer #7

Any pictures you know of?

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