[AZ-Observing] Re: Ring around the Moon

  • From: "Steve Coe" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "stevecoeaz2001" for DMARC)
  • To: "az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 04:26:39 +0000 (UTC)

Tom;
This is not what I saw in Wickenburg.  I saw a ring around the Moon that had a
radius of 25 degrees or so. 
Steve



On Sunday, October 25, 2015 5:56 AM, Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx> wrote:


---- Steve Coe <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It seems that the clouds from the Mexican hurricane are coming north. I drove
out tonight to get a hamburger and as I looked up through the windshield, I
spotted a very nice ring around the Moon.  I did not see any color in the
ring, but it was rather bright and obvious...


Hurricane Patricia's clouds did not affect Arizona.  The clouds last night
(and today) are coming in from the Pacific.  The very small ring around the
moon last night was a corona.  We could see some faint red coloration at the
edge of two rings.  Photographing one of these requires an "occulting disc"
that is nearly infinitely far away.  The giant power poles at the end of our
street served that purpose.

http://www.pbase.com/polakis/image/161678658/original

Tom
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