Moon halo

On our way home from a photographic expedition shooting night scenes in Leeds city centre, we looked up at the 99% full moon and the wispy clouds, and thought: "I wonder if we'll see a moondog?" No such luck, but later on Lee looked out of the window and yelled, "Halo!"

And there it was -- a spectacular and complete 22° lunar halo, with colours clearly visible. These aren't easy to photograph, and of course the moon will be horribly overexposed, but this is what we managed. This is a montage of two shots (we don't yet have a lens capable of spanning the entire thing), and on the right you can see Mars.

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