The appearance of "the giant moon" with the sky of the Arab world

Millions of people fascinated by astronomy and attentive to the changes underway in the world, have waited until January 20 to follow the phenomenon of the "giant moon" in regions where the sun is lying in Arabia. Saudi Arabia and the Arab world.

The astronomical assembly of Jeddah said that coinciding with the huge moon, the emergence of a necklace of light around the moon called "Corona", an atmospheric phenomenon and scenes with the naked eye when the weather conditions are propitious.

She adds that the moon is 99.5% light and that the crown appears as a disc without visible colors. It is produced when the high clouds cross the moon, a phenomenon that occurs everywhere in the world. Sometimes it has many colors. "

She added that the best time to monitor the crown when the moon in the complete phase was over compared to the rest of the moon phases, because the amount of light is important, but the phenomenon can form at other stages and on rare occasions, simultaneously show the crown and the large halo.