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To: Bushbacker1

All set up outside, hoping to see it through binocs. There’s a ring around the moon this morning.


38 posted on 10/09/2009 4:20:24 AM PDT by Ladysmith ("A community organizer can't bitch when communities organize." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Ladysmith

>There’s a ring around the moon this morning.

That’s a local phenomenon. It’s actually a “rainbow-like halo” created by ice crystals floating in our upper atmosphere. Light is being bent as if passing through a prism.

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circmoon.htm

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parmoon.htm


68 posted on 10/09/2009 4:38:53 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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