ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪs ʟᴜɴᴀʀ ᴄᴏʀᴏɴᴀ??
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when thin cloud scud across the bright the moon it is often surrounded by the bright diskh and faint coloured ring , a lunar Corona
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A corona is usually bluish closest to the Moon (or Sun) and often terminates in a reddish outer ring, as is the case on this photo. Whereas halos are at least 22 degrees away from the Moon and are caused by refraction in ice crystals, in coronae, the rings of light appear very near the Moon. See the Earth Science Picture of the Day for February 6, 2002.
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