A thousand stars in the sky...

[penguin2]

Beautiful sky tonight, slaty blue-black around a gibbous moon and scattered about with numerous kinds of clouds: lacy streamers, herringbones, elongated clumps with the sinuousness of living smoke, veiling and unveiling stars as they drift gently in the almost-still air. It's early winter here, although 'winter' means 'going outside in bare feet

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[payroll_rat]

'twas beautiful on Friday night as well, though more in the vein of a perfectly black sky, and I think that my ill-advised star-gazing-in-a-dress 'round 1am could well have induced hypothermia pansy-winter or no if I'd not been dragged back indoors. ;-D

...we were debating the correct word for the phenomenon where the moon casts a perfect rainbow halo, I said nimbus, but not all agreed - can I have your thoughts, my word-smithien friend?

[penguin2]

Hmm. As far as I've always known, the technical term is corona. But that's never stopped me calling it a moonbow, even though it's not - moonbows are actual rainbows lit by moonlight. Best one of those I even saw was on the way back from a gig in West Cork; the night was clear and the conditions were just right to produce a moonbow so bright and spectacular that it was possible to make out the colours in it!