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

Looks normal to me...

You can see it clearly here in Wilmington.

It's called a Lunar Halo. Supposedly predicts bad weather, but only is sometimes true.

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

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

I can't see it, too many trees

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Better call George Noory

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.

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

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.

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

That's the weather the moon was predicting. Partly cloudy

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.

Whatever your doing, I want two of them...

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

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

Huh?