"Summer Moon Dogs from Northern Missouri"

Early this morning one of the video cameras of the Missouri Skies Meteor Camera Network caught some rare "Moon Dogs" or paraselenae. These are seen on both sides of the moon and are part of a more diffuse lunar halo that can be seen surrounding the moon. Moon dogs are created by the same physical processes as Sun dogs, if you've seen those before, but are rare due to the relative brightnesses.

This sort of phenomenon is associated more with cold winter weather than summer climates. They are caused by ice crystals floating in the upper troposphere. These particular clouds this morning were the blow-off from the tops of some storms to the North and West of Missouri, I think.

Capella is the bright star at the left above the tree. The V-shaped Hyades star cluster, and the bright star Aldebaran, can be seen on the halo at the Moon's 7 o'clock position while the more popular Pleiades star cluster can be seen inside the halo at the moon's 9 o'clock position.

Off-the-shelf Hikvision Surveillance camera: DS-2CD2347G1-L set to 1/3 second exposure.

Photoshop was used to stack video 150 video frames to reduce noise. Corrections were made in contrast, color balance, and levels.