About Our Moon

Do you know what is the most thing i love of GOD's creations? it's our moon! there's so much thing to learn about it. so i search up about the moon and this is what i know about it.

MOON HALO
i know i saw this phenomena somewhere before. i thought it was ordinary phenomena so i didn't pay to much attention to it back then. but, recently there was an issue about the moon. many people witnessed a ring around the moon, and made them curious about it. thus it has raise many speculation such as the ring symbolize that the Apocalypse is near and it was a warning for us. some says that the alien tries to trick us by making a ring round the moon and a start to evade the world. actually, it is not true.


rainbows are formed when the sunlight is refracted through the water droplet. the similar effect occur with the moon halo. it is formed when the moon light refract to the ice crystals. the shape of the ice crystal result in focusing of the light into a ring. since the ice crystal has the same shape-hexagon, so the moon ring always has the almost same size.

moon halo

Anatomy of moon halo

MOON DOGS

moon dogs are the paler version of sun dogs: burst of light often in red or blue that appear on the both side of the moon. it occurs when the almost invisible clouds reside at the atmosphere where the commercial airliner cruises at about 30,000 feet. the clouds are largely made of ice crystals, which known as diamond dust. if it at 22 degree than it is called paraselene. then, if it 90, 120 or 140 degree, it is called parantiselene.

moon dog

MOON CORONA

another interesting effect of the moon light is the corona. just like the lunar halos, the coronas are formed by the high thin cloud. but unlike halos, coronas are very small in size.

moon corona

MOON PILLARS

moon pillars can be seen when the moon is rising or setting near the horizon. there are pale shaft of light that extend out either above or below the moon. the pillars appear in the sky when the ice crystal reflect light forward from a strong light such as the moon light. those crystal with plate shapes provide an excellent surface from which the light may reflect towards the viewers' eyes. because of the light are reflected and not refracted, they take the colour of the incident light.

moon pillars

MOON BOWS

you heard a rainbow, now do you ever heard moon bow? a night time rainbow caused by a reflection of the moon light. it works same like rainbow but uses moonlight instead of sunlight. daytime rainbows work great because of the intensity of the sunlight, but moonlight makes it shaped like a rainbow with just a hint colour. moon bows occur in the side of the sky opposite to the moon. so all this time when i saw the rainbow i thought it was a real rainbow, but it actually a moon bow!

moon bows

isn't our moon wonderful?? isn't GOD's creation is superb?? i love our moon.