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The weather had turned the moon into a "portal to another world"

Added	Sun, 01/03/2020
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Sat, 29/02/2020
Версии	Halo

When a resident of the canadian province of Manitoba on a cold winter morning going to work, he saw in the sky something fantastic. Refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of ice crystals in the air surrounded the moon halos and arcs, turning in a hypnotic celestial eye or the portal to the underworld.

The picture was taken two weeks ago. Colored rings represent the crown, caused by the quantum diffraction of small droplets of water or ice near the moon. In addition, the refraction of moonlight cylindrical hexagonal ice crystals led to the formation of 22-degree halo.

Pair of halo on the sides caused by the refraction of light passing through fluttering thin and flat hexagonal ice plate. In the upper and lower parts of the 22-degree halo visible upper and lower tangent arcs created by the refraction of moonlight through a horizontal hexagonal ice cylinders. After just a few minutes halos and arcs disappeared and the Moon took the usual form.

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