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Moon with colorful aura [OC]

Is there a name for when a nearly full moon shines through the clouds at night and produces a rainbow-like aura? A moonbow perhaps?

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[-] NeverNudeNo13 10 points 1 year ago

Called a moonbow

[-] Ferris@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think 22deg lunar halo, though it is diffused into a rainbow

*definitely a lunar carona vv

[-] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 points 1 year ago

It might be a lunar corona.

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