Lunar Corona
A broken, diffuse altocumulus deck put on a colorful show of nocturnal atmospheric optics during the cool, pre-dawn hours. Coronas come to the eye by means of optical diffraction (bending of light) through small water droplets of the clouds. I enjoyed this corona more than most because the cloud layer moving quickly and was nonuniform -- in fact, quite chunky -- imparting some welcome, ever-changing texture to the scene.
Norman OK (9 Oct 6), looking WSW.
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