Go outside and look at the moon

[cchen]

I'm in MD right now and there's a gigantic moon halo around the moon if you've never seen one before
Look around 5 moon radii

 

[minendo]

No moon. Only clouds and snow.:|

 

[Grey]

Yea, Been seeing that around here the last couple of days as well. Its Huge!

 

[fatbaby]

ahh big bright yellow shiny smoon!

 

[Cattlegod]

No moon. Only clouds and snow. 🙂

 

[Brutuskend]

No, I won't and you can't make me! 😉

 

[Yzzim]

<< No moon. Only clouds and snow.:| >>

 

[cchen]

It's pretty cool if you've never seen one before....

 

[mrCide]

looks normal to me.

 

[FlamingPanther]

Nice! thats cool. I've never seen one of those before!

 

[b0mbrman]

Not bad...

 

[cchen]

I dunno how much cloud cover you have over there....

but try and look far away from the moon, like 5-6 radii

 

[AreaCode707]

The moon is evil- it washes out the starlight.

 

[Bobomatic]

it looks cool, sometimes it has a rainbow halo, dont know why, I think its from the clouds. What is this halo from? I am in SoCal and I see it, cant be because of the clouds.

 

[bonk102]

no moon here

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

The moon halo means it is going to rain with in 24 hours according to some source like the farmers alminac or something

 

[Jzero]

Anything to do wtih the occultation of Saturn? I thought that was coming up sometime soon...

 

[cchen]

Here's a somewhat simplified explanation:

Cirrus clouds have ice crystals in them. The crystals in the clouds are relatively uniform in shape. When an accumulation of clouds are around the sun, the crystals act as a lens, diffracting the light at the same angle, causing the halo.

I think the moon already occulted Saturn... should have been around Friday or Saturday night....

 

[GooberPHX420]

Im in Arizona - I step outside and melt 🙁

 

[b0mbrman]

🙂()

 

[Moonbeam]

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I can see my shadow.

 

[fr]

I saw a big group of people outside earlier tonight with two really big telescopes. I guess there was something to see.

 

[menderchuck]

its the Bob Sammuelson effect

 

[sandorski]

Back in 1980, there was a rare night of aurora borealis in these parts. The colour of it was a blood red and there was also a full moon. A halo effect on the moon made it look like the moon was bleeding! It was the coolest thing I ever saw.