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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/12/07 05:16 UTC 版)
From moon + dog; metaphorically refers to the bright spots of light that appear to "dog" or follow the real moon, much like a dog follows its owner.
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/03/15 19:05 UTC 版)
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/25 15:34 UTC 版)
Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. Moving to New York as a young man, Moondog made a deliberate decision to make his home on the streets there, where he spent approximately twenty of the thirty years he lived in the city. Most days he could be found in his chosen part of town wearing clothes he had created based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Thanks to his unconventional outfits and lifestyle, he was known for much of his life as "The Viking of 6th Avenue".
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/01 15:08 UTC 版)
A moon dog or moondog (scientific name paraselene, plural paraselenae, i.e. "beside the 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. Moondogs appear to the left and right of the moon 22° or more distant. They are exactly analogous to sun dogs, but are rarer because to be produced the moon must be bright and therefore full or nearly full. Moondogs show little color to the unaided eye because their light is not bright enough to activate the cone cells of humans' eyes.