Of course, to see the halo, the crystals must be oriented and positioned in a specific way to your eye. The light reflected off the ice crystals and that coming directly from the moon should ...

Halos can form around both the sun and the moon, but stars are not bright enough to produce a halo effect. They form when tiny ice crystals refract and reflect the light in an organized way.

Residents in the Kamloops area were treated to a halo around the sun on a blue-sky day in early March, and some shutterbugs ...