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No It's not the new album from Muse , but a light effect around the Moon just now . Go outside and have a look.
Just looks like a normal bright moon to me right now
It's maybe just up in the Central belt of Scotland , It has a massive Halo around It . Apparently It's caused by ice crystals somewhere refracting of It. I had to get the kids out of bed to confirm I wasn't having some sort of recreational flashback from the 90's.
Just seen this posted on FB
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http://kssimagesuk.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/lunar-halo-5th-november-2014/
All I see is a hazy moon behind some cloud
Just got back from Glentress where I stood and stared at this for ages. It was stunningly strange!
That's what It was like in the Royal Suburb of Tranent Colin. 😀
Night shift, driving around rural cumbria and we spotted it, looked amazing!
Took photo's of it last week or the week before when it had the ring but when I left work earlier it was a fair bit larger in diameter. Couldn't be bothered taking pics as there was fireworks to snap!
We saw it, looks great.
No luck here, too hazy.
Perhaps it was a northern phenomenon last night, disappointingly normal down south
I saw this last winter, it does look amazing
saw this last night on night ride in stoke, epic
I've seen similar with the sun while skiing.
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Though from a camera you could say it's a lens effect, but all in our group saw it just with our eyes. Weird at the time and the halo was pretty big.
Anyway, didn't see anything like that with the moon last night, but it was very bright.
Driving home from Inverness last night I had to lower the sun visor in the car as it was so bright!
I've seen that halo a few times. TBH, I didn't realise it was supposed to be so rare.
Great site about atmospheric optical effects and the science behind their appearance; here's a bit about moon halos, but loads more in the menu bar on the left:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parmoon.htm
Lots of pretty pictures too.
Apparently It's caused by ice crystals somewhere refracting of It
yup, ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. If there's a lot of them with similar shapes, they refract the light to give this effect. The more similar the shape, and the more uniformally they're oriented, the brighter the halo.