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Lunar Halo

It is a bad quality photo taken from a mobile. The circle that surrounds the moon is formed by the refraction of the moonlight when passing through ice crystals present in the atmosphere. At times surrounding the moon itself you can see a circular rainbow (they all are, but we see only half of the solar rainbow). This phenomenon is called a lunar halo.

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sh.itjust.works

Lunar halos and moonbows are some of my favorite meteorological and astral phenomena!

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