Midwinter Moon

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4533670.stm
(moon higher in the sky than for the last 18 years)

Did anyone see this? It was pitifully cloudy where I was last night, though yesterday morning I saw the moon before I'd heard the news about it, and thought 'ooh that looks spectacular today' - bright and full and pretty high.

I watched it rise from the center of stonehenge on a photo commission and it was spectacular!

On Tuesday night there was a special lunar event reported on the front page of my local news paper which I too witnesse. A very large pale white ring surrounding the moon with Mars situated on the ring. Weather men said it may have been caused by the pollution from the oil fire in London but, this is wrong. I have witnessed this same phenomena before but around the Sun on two occasions, without Mars of course. The solar ring I witnessed was like a circular rainbow around the sun. I googled and found an explanation, which slips my mind at the moment but, like Tuesday's phenomena, it was a beautiful sight. Such events are widely reported amongst occultists and Cropredy is right to draw our attention towards a magical seven days of lunar magic.

jonG

It looked pretty good from Bristol, I have to say.

I saw it at the stones known as Monkey's Bridge in The Megalithic European, it was amazingly large and low in the sky, it was also a pale pink colour. Unfortunately I had taken lots of photos earlier at An Seisear and my battery ran out before I noticed the moon rearing up behind me. When it got dark though the moon was exceptionally bright and there were the largest moon halos I've ever seen, I was a bit frustrated as I drove past the floodlit castle in Mallow with this spectacular sight behind it and nothing to take a pic with!

I have been out tonight , lucky to live away from light polution.
Two things.
!, the moon rose in an orange ball, thought sun had run around and was popping up again, when it cleared horizon, I could percieve nothing but shades of grey to black, the sky had a tinge of slate blue about it.
But some kind moles had given Me some chalk, near a place called stone henge, these pieces of chalk, I could percieve as white, even if I left them at a distance ?
2, the planet opposite the moon that has been very bright for a while, I presume it is Mars ?, has been doing something, I have not mentioned this before, because some on here ,demand proof, and how can I prove what My eyes see ?, doesnt come out in photos, anyway, it is , to My eyes emitting a spiral of ghostly white light, which turns from left to right, to right to left, very hypnotic , any ideas, apart from the white coat that fastens at the back ?
K.