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What is the cause and effect of the lunar rings we can see sometimes on a cold night?

  • On a cold night the skies clear and the moonlight shining down creates a large luminous ring, i know this isnt possible when its too cloudy or too warm outside... although once in the summer i saw a huge rainbow like ring around the sun and it was beautiful, enormous and may have also been a crisper day I'm more interested in the effect. Why do I feel so energized walking under this moonlight ? and does it make a difference to our personal, emotional and mental behavior or awareness on nights like these ? Am i just over whelmed by the beauty and magnitude of power and deception, or is there actual science to prove why it would feel good to me.

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    The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is almost always the same size. Less typical are the halos that may be produced by different angles in the crystals. They can create halos with an angle of 46 degrees. http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring

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The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is almost always the same size. Less typical are the halos that may be produced by different angles in the crystals. They can create halos with an angle of 46 degrees. http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring

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The cause is simply optical phenomena of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. It is called a lunar halo. You can read about it below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lunar_halo The effect you are interested in is really just a no-op. It is only your own psychology that you feel energized. There is no real reason for it, and there is no guarantee that it does that for everyone. It doesn't affect your personal or emotional or mental behavior at all. It is a complete pseudoscience to think that it does. In otherwords, if you were to remain in a closed room on a brightly moon-lit night, you wouldn't be affected by it in any way shape or form. The only way that it DOES effect you, is simply a "face value" effect. Seeing is believing. You see extra light, and you can do more activity. You only get affected when you know you are being affected. You look at the moon and you find it interesting, so you want to study it more. THAT IS the ONLY effect that it has on you.

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The cause is simply optical phenomena of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. It is called a lunar halo. You can read about it below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lunar_halo The effect you are interested in is really just a no-op. It is only your own psychology that you feel energized. There is no real reason for it, and there is no guarantee that it does that for everyone. It doesn't affect your personal or emotional or mental behavior at all. It is a complete pseudoscience to think that it does. In otherwords, if you were to remain in a closed room on a brightly moon-lit night, you wouldn't be affected by it in any way shape or form. The only way that it DOES effect you, is simply a "face value" effect. Seeing is believing. You see extra light, and you can do more activity. You only get affected when you know you are being affected. You look at the moon and you find it interesting, so you want to study it more. THAT IS the ONLY effect that it has on you.

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