# Moon Luck up now 01/01/10. 12:13 Am Pacific

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 1, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-luck-up-now-01-01-10-12-13-am-pacific/523276 "2010-01-01T08:14:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-luck-up-now-01-01-10-12-13-am-pacific/523276/1 "2010-01-01T08:14:29Z")

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Look at the moon now in San Jose, Ca.

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**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-luck-up-now-01-01-10-12-13-am-pacific/523276/2 "2010-01-01T08:16:39Z")

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What causes the ring around the moon. The sky is cloudy. With the Moon in the center of a circle of perfectly clear sky.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-luck-up-now-01-01-10-12-13-am-pacific/523276/3 "2010-01-01T08:27:16Z")

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If you are just talking about a circular gap in the clouds with the moon in the middle, I would guess its just a coincidence, but you may be seeing a [halo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28optical_phenomenon%29).

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**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-luck-up-now-01-01-10-12-13-am-pacific/523276/4 "2010-01-01T08:51:35Z")

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> [@njtt](#):
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> If you are just talking about a circular gap in the clouds with the moon in the middle, I would guess its just a coincidence, but you may be seeing a [halo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28optical_phenomenon%29).

I think you have got what I was looking at. The sky around the moon in an almost perfect circle was clear. I have seen this before but tonight it was such a large circle. It was something to see. Thanks.