Lunar Rainbow by Adam Gormley
The mixture between a chilly night, with lots of high atmosphere ice crystals, and a bright moon, cause this rainbow-like ring around the moon. As like a ground or rain rainbow, light is getting reflected at different angles, causing the colours. Here, the same thing happens with the ice crystals, they reflect the already reflected sun light from the moon into our eyes.
A Moon Ring, or Moon Halo as also known, will always be the same size, 22 degrees across the sky, and will be 44 x the size of the moon.
Canon 50D, 10mm, 77 second exposure.. Available Large, and definately best viewed large!
Comments
Outstanding capture, Adam! This is absolutely gorgeous! Fantastic work!
Greetings Adam; Nice capture !
steve
Amazing! I actually read about lunar rainbows yesterday, but have never seen one!
Love the image and info, very interesting! Dee
gorgeous Adam ;) xoxox ♥
Hi Adam…very cool….;) I have never heard of lunar rainbows….hmmmm ….i’ve seen and heard of halos/rings around the moon…but never rainbows…your explanation is great! I will have to ask my son who’s into the night sky…and see if he has heard of lunar rainbows! You are a wealth of new information! Awesome capture! :)
Excellent capture
Awesome capture & instant fav, before having a decent camera I saw one myself, many moons ago evil grin
A beautiful capture of the lunar rainbow, well done!! Take Care ~ Rick & Deb ~ :)
Stunning! Great capture of this phenomenon.