Perfect Circle In Sky!

omg,
I was walking outside to go and smoke and I look up at the sky. And there is this GIGANTIC perfect ring around the moon. It looked soooo amazing! I grabbed my camera but due to shitty location and bad lighting they don't do it any justice. I looked on the news to see anything about it, but nothing yet. Anyone know what it might be? It was a huge perfect circle and I mean PERFECT that was around the moon with the moon as the center.

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^^^ The rings only lasted a few minutes

^^^^^ anyone know what these might be? ?

[espiex]

"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."

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

Rad thanks!

[Pitfall]

theyre called solar rings haha thats so funny. i saw this awhile back and was like what the fuck?! but yeah it had a picture of 1 in the latest guiness world records so yeah that was cool, i didnt even have to research. for once.

[GreenGirl]

That's really cool. Anybody ever see Northern Lights? Those are the prettiest.

[SmokeSomeDoja]

i see that lot alot when its fucking freezing and foggy in the city (most of the time), its really cool to look at, i love checking out the night sky

[GreenGirl]

Yeah, it's really beautiful. Where I'm from, there's no lights at night, so you can see the Northern Lightsare so bright and you can see them so clearly.

[SmokeSomeDoja]

Originally posted by GreenGirl
Yeah, it's really beautiful. Where I'm from, there's no lights at night, so you can see the Northern Lightsare so bright and you can see them so clearly.

oh no, i was talking about the moon thing -- id love to see northern lights tho, i always have -- yea, those spots in the middle of no where are great, i can stare at the sky for hours -- what colors is it and how often?

[GreenGirl]

They're sort of like fading, waving sheets of light. Sometimes they're bluish, or red/pink.

[SmokeSomeDoja]

that must be pretty fucking cool -- i like the avatar btw

[Papercup]

We had the Northern Lights one night that I can remember, it was greenish, and completely blew me away with how it looked... unfortunately I was unable to enhance the experience further because I was out of weed.

[Pitfall]

papercup got the joke in first

[macmillen]

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Wide Circles

I don't know what your trying to say mcmillen? I think that is art. I've seen those once, god such a beautiful sight.

[geewhizitskatee]

yeah man, natural art. everyone's interpretation of art is different, but the beauty of nature can really blow you away if you let it.
Thats really cool though, I don't think i've ever heard about/seen that. northern lights are incredible

[catastrophe]

That's really cool. Anybody ever see Northern Lights? Those are the prettiest.

You get to see them about once a year here in Minnesota, it's quite neat.

[Captain Cannabis]

old thread but i'll contribute anyway

for anyone who is a fan of atmospheric optics (ie: moon/sun halos, parhelic arcs, rainbows, etc) or nerdy stuff like aurora borealis (if you are in fact far enough north to observe them), check this website out:

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
SpaceWeather

here is a random sun halo i got a picture of. the picture kind of sucks but it wasn't with my fancy new camera

[Rankz]

that's pretty cool, my new background ;D