by APOD Robot » Mon Feb 24, 2020 2:17 pm
Moon Corona, Halo, and Arcs over Manitoba
Explanation: Yes, but could you get to work on time if the Moon looked like this? As the photographer was preparing to drive to work,
refraction,
reflection, and even
diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals turned the
familiar icon of our Moon into a
menagerie of other-worldly halos and arcs. The featured scene was captured with three combined exposures two weeks ago on a cold winter morning in
Manitoba,
Canada. The
colorful rings are a
corona caused by
quantum diffraction by small drops of water or ice near the direction of the
Moon. Outside of that, a
22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through six-sided cylindrical
ice crystals. To the sides are
moon dogs, caused by light refracting through thin, flat,
six-sided ice platelets as they flittered toward the ground. Visible at the top and bottom of the
22-degree halo are upper and lower
tangent arcs, created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal
hexagonal ice cylinders. A few minutes later, from a field just off the road to work, the halo and arcs had disappeared, the sky had returned to normal -- with the exception of a
single faint moon dog.
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