To bad we know ( or think we know ) the scientific reason for these kind of
things. In ages past it was probably just as beautiful and we had to make
up a reason for it, or get the shaman or witchdoctor to do it.

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon. I
was facing nearly due east. High thin clouds looked very much like the
ripples in the sand in the shallows of a lake. Something, presumably ice
crystals, between the observer on the ground and the clouds was refracting
the sunlight reflected off the moon. There was a bright white nimbus
surrounding the moon and extending about two apparent diameters of the
moon
all around it. Outside this glowing patch was a ring of barely
perceptible
red.....as near infrared as my eyes could detect. Outside that followed
all
the colors of the spectrum; sort of a rainbow in the round. Outside that
was another complete rainbow and, outside that, a third. Barely visible
in
the white patch were much smaller ripples than those formed by the high
clouds, traveling west to east.

It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.

Wolfgang