Large ring around the Sun

I believe the ring your seeing is called a "corona ring"...

I saw it too and looked it up on the internet. Said it was a 'sun dog'.

Looks like we've got two threads going on this one...

So I went online and found a couple of explanations:

1) Have you ever looked up and noticed that there's a big ring around the Sun? These rings are caused by ice crystals within thin cirrus clouds, and there several different kinds of sun rings you can see depending on the weather conditions. One of the most common ones is called a 22° halo. They get this name because the ring is located 22 degrees away from the Sun itself.

2) As an upper level disturbance approaches or warm front approaches the clouds tend to start off as high clouds. Over time the clouds gradually lower and thicken. Near the source of the greatest synoptic lifting is where precipitation and thick clouds are most likely. The sun or moon will no longer be visible once the clouds thicken too much. The ring around the sun or moon is caused by ice crystals within thin cirrus clouds. The refraction causes light to shine into a ring. Cirrus clouds are generally the first layer of clouds that are seen as a storm system approaches.

Root cause: Cirrus clouds

Photo of the Phenomenon

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=3502125&id=654830568&ref=mf

I hope this works....

Amen to that!

Photo Retry

I don't think the last link was accessible to all so one final try:

web said:

and to top it off there was a brilliant rainbow in the sky as well this evening....you'll never find a better artist than God

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Yeah, the Flying Spaghetti Monster gets around.

Ramen to that.

I remember seeing something like this around the moon once. Is that caused by ice crystals too?

oh, spaghetti monsters dont fly, silly!