Moon halo in Manitoba

3D Model

First place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Sun/Moon haloes: Selene meets the Moon, by Sheila Wiwchar, Canada. Photographed at Kaleida, Manitoba in Canada. This image beautifully captures the rare optical phenomena encircling the moon known as the“22° halo” and the horizontal white circle passing through the moon called the “paraselenic circle”. The white band circling the whole sky at the same altitude as the moon is named after Selene, the ancient Greek Titan, famously called the goddess of the moon. The more commonly observed counterpart produced by the sun is known as the parhelic circle, named after the Greek god of the sun, Helios.

The globe of the Moon was not seen in the photo. I added it to the model.

Photography deceives us showing stars as disks. They should be points. I diminished the sizes of stars. Otherwise the Moon would be smaller then the discs of the brigthest stars.