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Credit & Copyright: Laurent Laveder
(PixHeaven.net
/ TWAN)
Explanation:
If your sister-in-law phoned you at 1am
to tell you there was
a circle around the Moon,
how would you react?
When it happened to him early last Sunday morning,
photographer Laurent Laveder, grabbed
his equipment and ran outside!
He was rewarded with the
sight of a bright lunar halo
shining in his neighborhood skies above Quimper, France.
With a radius of 22 degrees, the beautiful
halo
is produced by the refraction of moonlight in
hexagonal-shaped ice crystals
formed in thin, high clouds.
Laveder captured a series of digital images
that he used to create this
composite fisheye
view as well as a remarkable
360 degree
VR panorama.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Moon - halo
Publications with words: Moon - halo
See also:
- APOD: 2026 August 25 Á Earths Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses
- APOD: 2026 May 11 Á Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
- APOD: 2026 May 9 Á Messier Craters in Stereo
- APOD: 2026 April 15 Á The ISS Transits the Moon
- APOD: 2026 April 11 Á Artemis II: Flight Day 6
- The Bay of Rainbows
- Earthset from Orion