Check out the moon

• hasbeen

  

  There's a big old ring around the moon right now. Check it.
• hoops23

  

  Looks normal to me...
• hasbeen

  

  You can see it clearly here in Wilmington.
  
  It's called a Lunar Halo. Supposedly predicts bad weather, but only is sometimes true.
• Firad

  

  That is proof that the world will end December 21, 2012.
• Go_Fast_Sports

  

  I don't see a ring....but it as bright as ever...
• CenterBHSFan

  

  I can't see it, too many trees
• Speedofsand

  

  I saw it here in Florida too. Really big ring.
• hoops23

  

  Yeah, I never saw a ring, but it was bright as hell...
• ts1227

  

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

  

  I checked it out about 1245am last nite, it was huge and did have a ring around it.
• said_aouita

  

  In advance of approaching storm systems, especially in the winter, moisture in the upper levels of the atmosphere begin to increase first. The moisture is evident in the high clouds that begin to increase through the day. These high clouds or cirrus clouds are composed of fine crystals of ice.
  
  It is only when a layer of cirrus clouds reaches the optimum thickness that a ring will be able to form. The layer of the clouds must not be too thick, however, or the light will not shine through the clouds.
  
  The layer if cirrus clouds or ice crystals are critical because it is the ice crystals within the cirrus clouds that create the ring. As the light of the moon shines through the cirrus clouds the ice crystals cause the light from the moon to refract and produce the ring.
  
  Refraction is the bending of light as it passes through one medium to the next. In the case of the ring around the moon the two mediums are the atmosphere and the ice crystal.
• gorocks99

  

  said_aouita wrote: In advance of approaching storm systems, especially in the winter, moisture in the upper levels of the atmosphere begin to increase first. The moisture is evident in the high clouds that begin to increase through the day. These high clouds or cirrus clouds are composed of fine crystals of ice.
  
  It is only when a layer of cirrus clouds reaches the optimum thickness that a ring will be able to form. The layer of the clouds must not be too thick, however, or the light will not shine through the clouds.
  
  The layer if cirrus clouds or ice crystals are critical because it is the ice crystals within the cirrus clouds that create the ring. As the light of the moon shines through the cirrus clouds the ice crystals cause the light from the moon to refract and produce the ring.
  
  Refraction is the bending of light as it passes through one medium to the next. In the case of the ring around the moon the two mediums are the atmosphere and the ice crystal.

  
• Fab1b

  

  Better call George Noory
• friendfromlowry

  Ha my friend texted me at 2:00am this morning telling me to go look at the moon. When I woke up for work I was like, what the hell was he talking about? Now I know...
  
  Will this happen again anytime soon? I'd like to see it.
• hasbeen

  

  According to the intrAnetZ, it's fairly common. I'm 21 years old and I have never seen one before last night.
• dwccrew

  

  Firad wrote: That is proof that the world will end December 21, 2012.

  If the world doesn't end then you owe me $5,000 on December 22, 2012.
• Curly J

  

  Checked tonight, can't see it due to clouds.
• dwccrew

  

  That's the weather the moon was predicting. Partly cloudy
• Curly J

  

  Partly ??? More like fully where I am. But last nite's moon was awesome. Been a while since I saw it like it was last nite. And yes I usually do look at it nightly at work.
• Apple

  

  Whatever your doing, I want two of them...
• Curly J

  

  I've already had a double of them Apple. Was worth it.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  ts1227 wrote: http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/

  Huh?