Evening chaps,

This evening, being Halloween and all, I was outside scaring off the local kids. I was heading back to the house to fill up with more sweets when I noticed that the clouds in the sky had parted forming a perfect circle around the moon.

I have never seen anything like this before... I mean, I have seen the moon poking through the clouds... But this is very different.
Its hard to judge the diameter of this circle, but easily if not more, 1km+.

I asked around the neighbours who had obviously picked up on my curious looks upwards and they neither had experienced a sighting quite like it
One suggested that it was a sign of an impending storm, which indecently here in the UK we do have a rather severe weather warning in affect for early tomorrow morning.
It certainly sparked memory or the film "The Day After Tomorrow" where they are in the eye of the storm....

Anyhow, ill leave you to judge, but if anyone can explain it that would be great
I'm probably just being a fool and this is a common weather phenomena lol - Or not....








Please note that in some of the images, you can see plane trails and in some cases plane nav. lights.. Should give you an indication of the size of the circle perhaps.
Photos were taken with a Canon 450D w/ 18-55mm lens @ 18mm. Unfortunately due to the nature of the semi wide angle, it does not do the size of the circle any justice.
Also, I rarely take pictures at night time, so I was a bit nooby with the settings
Lastly lol - I have reduced the size of the images due to issues when uploading. If needed I can and will provide the original 5mb+ files.

Klis

[edit on 31/10/2009 by Kliskey]

[edit on 31-10-2009 by james420]

Isn't that just cloud cover diffusing the light? It's cloudy over here in N Ireland too, but you can still make our the moon through the clouds, it's just blurry.

hey man i'm seeing it too right over my house. SE England its getting more prominant in the sky now looks cool.

Originally posted by iwannaseethisshipgodown
hey man i'm seeing it too right over my house. SE England its getting more prominant in the sky now looks cool.

Oops, forgot to mention that I am in West Sussex. So I would imagine that most in the South East will be able to view it, if its still there

Cracking pictures Gromit!

I'm in the UK too, saw one of these about 2 weeks ago, and was just... awestruck!

I'd never seen one of these before. Made me feel quite special

Ahh .. so thats what they were. I noticed them to. Nice pics

[edit on 31-10-2009 by VitalOverdose]