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After 10 years of taking pictures of full moons, a photographer has captured lunar light in a rainbow of colors. Through her range of images, Marcella Giulia Pace shows how Earth’s atmospheric ...
Full moon brings out ‘unicorn’ in national forest in Arizona An unusual figure appeared on cameras at a national park in Arizona during the full moon last month, park rangers say.
This creates a rainbow or halo effect around the moon. The lunar corona feature several concentric, pastel-coloured rings and a central bright area called the aureole.
About 11 o’clock, when the moon was well up in the southeast sky, the rainbow appeared in the northwest, where a thunderstorm was in progress. The prismatic colors were fairly distinguishable.