A moon dog was spotted last night in Central Florida.

First Warning Chief Meteorologist Tony Manolfi said moon dogs are bright spots of light that appear on either side of the moon, caused by moonlight refracting through hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus or cirrostratus clouds.

This is like a sun dog. Almost entirely the same, except it appears near the sun.

A moon dog is also referred to as a lunar halo, or paraselenae .

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