# Blue Moon🎶

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-moon/989378>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-moon/989378 "2023-08-31T01:40:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-moon/989378/21 "2023-08-31T20:04:18Z")

</div>

_I’ve got a loveryly bunch of coconuts . . ._

One partly cloudy night I saw a full moon with a pale rainbow halo around it. The halo was at least 3 moon diameters out from the moon.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-moon/989378/22 "2023-09-01T02:12:41Z")

</div>

That is a serious spotlight in the sky. Whoa, whoda thunk one percent would make a difference.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-moon/989378/23 "2023-09-01T05:37:13Z")

</div>

> [@Beckdawrek](#):
>
> put the lime in the coconut

I’d rather Jump Into The Fire. Your Fire, Specifically. I’m Besotted with you!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-moon/989378/24 "2023-09-02T01:57:16Z")

</div>

Halo around a full moon is created by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere.

A rainbow around the sun is caused by the same thing.

~VOW

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-moon/989378.md?page=1)