how crazy are moon rings?

dunno if there is a specific term for it, but this is the biggest one i've seen yet..

Interesting effect, and seriously wide-angled too. What lens were you using?

8mm fish eye

moon rings or lense flare?

That is not lens flare. That's light diffraction from the light of the (silvery) moon reflecting off the earth's atmosphere. More likely to moisture in the air. You can see it happen with the sun sometimes too. It's not a rare event.

Wicked shot. I like it.

I like this image - you have just the right lens for halo photography.

Hmm,i thought so.
Great effect,nice one.

That is one more unusual, and good, photograph.

excellent picture of a moon halo. caused by refraction of moon light thru hexagonal ice crystals. generally seen with higher altitude cirrus clouds. Always has same apparent size of 22 degrees. more on the subject here

it's gorgeous out there right now, especially at 2am in 22 degree weather, it's like you're in siberia or something.

Fantastic pic dietcookie, but where exactly is 'out there'

umm..........just to throw in my .02........when that refraction happens with the sun, I believe it's called a "sun dog"......

The basic physics of this image and sun dogs are the same. But sun dogs appear as two distinct prisms of intense light to the left and right of the sun, and equidistant from the sun. The three factors (each sundog and the sun) are on the same horizontal plane. With a ring around the sun like this, sometimes you get sundogs as well as the ring, and sometimes there's another intense concentration of light along the ring straight up from the sun. There also can be other variations on these themes. Such things are more often seen the closer to the Arctic one travels.

In "Arctic Dreams," a very fine natural history treatise on Arctic nature, ecology and development, Barry Lopez includes a segment on the phenomena. Lopez is so good that, if he isn't God, he ought to be.

This is a beautifully composed and exposed capture, by the way. My full congrats. Where is the print available for purchase?

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Fantastic pic dietcookie, but where exactly is 'out there'

East county San Diego, Cleveland National Forest/Descanso area.

thank you thank you, in regards to prints for purchase, I haven't gotten that far yet haha.

Love that fisheye effect!