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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