New Zealand Wilderness

$DSC_6136 Moon ring or Ice halo over Otago Harbour. A 22° halo is an optical phenomenon, forming a circle around the moon or more commonly the sun. It forms as light is refracted in millions of randomly oriented hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. These ice halos appear when the sky is covered by thin cirrus clouds that often come a few days before a large storm front *$

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DSC_6136 Moon ring or Ice halo over Otago Harbour. A 22° halo is an optical phenomenon, forming a circle around the moon or more commonly the sun. It forms as light is refracted in millions of randomly oriented hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. These ice halos appear when the sky is covered by thin cirrus clouds that often come a few days before a large storm front *

DSC_6136 Moon ring Ice halo Otago Harbour 22 halo optical phenomenon night sky hexagonal ice crystals suspended atmosphere