What Does Paraselenae Mean?

A moon dog, moondog, or mock moon, is a relatively rare bright circular spot on a lunar halo caused by the refraction of moonlight by hexagonal-plate-shaped ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Moon dogs appear as part of the 22° halo, roughly 10 Moon diameters outside the Moon.

How do you use paraselene in a sentence?

"Beneath the glamour of the magic night, the weird paraselene of the moon's phenomenon, the glow of the volcano, the noises, the men whispered of one thing only -- Gold!"

What does it mean when you see a moon dog?

According to folklore, moon dogs are signs of approaching storms or bad weather. Because cirrus clouds often appear a few days before a large storm, this lore is scientifically sensible, although the same clouds can occur without any consistent weather change.