someone else explain the halo around the moon link-->?

Question

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/moonhalo.html

how does it form?
make the words fit so like either a dumb high schooler can get it or a smart elementry schooler can get it.
or an average middle schooler.

Answer 1

It seems like the light from the moon is shining very brightly in a short distance. That gives it the look of a halo since the strong light weekens as it shines to earth. That was in an essay on the internet that told the rtuth. Hope this is the answer you were looking for!

Answer 2

Thin high alitude clouds are made of small ice crystals. Light bends 22 degrees as it passes through ice crystals. As a result, there are two paths for light to go from the moon to your eye. It can pass through the cloud in a straight line, or it can be bent by the ice crystals. The ice crystal in a ring, 22 degrees around the moon produce the bent path.

Answer 3

yup.
its like a rainbow, but at night and with the moon.

Its really caused by ice crystals instead of water.

rainbows use water (or humidity) in the air

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/