Did anybody see that moon on Saturday night?? I stepped outside at 1930hrs on Saturday and saw the most amazing sight I have ever seen of the moon. It looked like a star in your telescope that you have defocused. Two perfect concentric circles surrounded the moon - the innermost one a good 2 moon diameters and a vivid orange
the outermost ring was a greyish blue, again 2 full moon diameters
. Each ring was sharply focused, and the colours did not seem to merge.
The phenomenom lasted for about 3 minutes, then the haloes slowly dispersed as different clouds drifted by. A few minutes later, I saw an aeroplane approaching about 5000 ft with his spot light on. You could see the cone of light easily for about 80 metres in front of the plane - but the strange thing was, that when it drew closer, there was no engine noise - definitely no jet engine and not the normal propeller noise
Aliens maybe??
Then to top it all off a magnificent very bright meteor streaked by in the west travelling from from south to north and was visible for what must have been at least a second
Altogether some amazing sights.