This is called a Moon Halo. We viewed one of these last night directly above our heads.To learn more about this phenomenon, click here
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=79 .And then here you can see a diagram showing more about how this occurs
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/. Here for a simpler explanation
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/ice/halo/22.rxml
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