A lunar halo around the moon on the evening of 02/01/2012. Great luck to have the shutter open when the jetliner flew over, intersecting the halo ring. The nighttime sky will always beat any photoshop techniques or prestidigitation by silly humans.
To our ancestors and native Americans, this would have been plenty of magic and mystery. I wonder what they would have thought. Or, what would the Shaman say?
8:32 PM MST on 02/01/12. The moon was 68.2 alt, 147.4 azi, 0.68 waxing gibbous.
The lunar halo is a sign of thin cirrus clouds drifting high above our heads. Weather lore says a lunar halo is the precursor of impending unsettled weather, especially during the winter months. This is often proved true, as cirrus and cirrostratus clouds generally precede rain and storm systems.
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