With the passing of June’s Strawberry Moon, astronomy is once again the talk of the town. Astronomical occurrences like full moons and meteor showers have a way of making us earthlings stop and stare. But there’s one event that deserves just as much attention—the lunar halo. A common enough occurrence, the lunar halo is a phenomenon of light similar to a rainbow that creates an image of a large circle around the moon.
Just before the Strawberry Moon appeared in the skies, Filipino photographer Edwin Martinez managed to capture a sighting of a lunar halo from the coast of Bandon, Oregon. An expert in nature and landscape photography, Martinez was kind enough to share his photos with us.
Check out more photos of the lunar halo below.
