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Rainbow at Night

g8.no — After two months of shooting landscapes in Hawaii, this is probably the strangest moment I experienced. 11pm and pitch dark night, a grey bow appeared on the horizon, I quickly took a shot at +1ev, and was very surprised to find that the bow actually had rainbow colors in it. The entire bow was visible for about 1 minute before it went away. I had

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  • babychen, on 05/29/2008, -2/+13Never heard about rainbows at night before...
  • hydr, on 05/29/2008, -1/+22From Wikipedia:
    A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow, lunar bow or white rainbow) is a rainbow produced by the moon rather than the sun. Moonbows are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light from the Moon. They are always in the opposite part of the sky from the moon.

    It is difficult to discern colours in a moonbow because the light is usually too faint to excite the cone colour receptors in our eyes. As a result, they often appear to be white.[1] However, the colours in a moonbow do appear in long exposure photographs.

    A coloured circle around the moon is not a moonbow—it is usually a 22° halo produced by refraction through hexagonal ice crystals in cirrus cloud. Coloured rings close to the moon are a corona, a diffraction phenomenon produced by very small water droplets or ice crystals in clouds.

    Moonbows are most easily viewed when the moon is near to full (when it is brightest). For other than those produced by waterfalls, the moon must be low in the sky (less than 42 degrees and preferably lower) and the sky must be dark. And of course there must be rain falling opposite the moon. This combination of requirements makes moonbows much more rare than rainbows produced by the sun.

    There have been rare instances of rainbows appearing around the moon itself in foggy weather.

    Few places in the world frequently feature this phenomenon. Cumberland Falls[2], near Williamsburg [1], Kentucky], Kentucky, U.S.A.; Waimea, Hawaii; and Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe are widely known for moonbow occurrence.
    • baylat, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3Thanks for the information. Moonbow.. cool
    • alllo, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2Thanks a lot
      I have never heard about moonbows ))
      really cool stuff
    • ksuralta, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1Been to Cumberland Falls. Yay! :)
  • dleesgeetar, on 05/29/2008, -1/+11absolutely beautiful, almost enough to make me religious . . .
    • sterntastic223, on 05/29/2008, -1/+3Enough to make me recant Scientology...
  • dimmerswitch, on 05/29/2008, -1/+11awesome shot - perfectly shaped rainbow as well.
  • sungoddess808, on 05/29/2008, -1/+9What an amazing sight! Totally awesome! =)
  • sogeshirts, on 05/29/2008, -1/+10beautiful I have never seen that before.
  • bixby1, on 05/29/2008, -1/+13just a magical image. made me feel all warm and fuzzy.
  • bootstrap, on 05/29/2008, -1/+10beautiful and amazing
  • MayleneSotD, on 05/30/2008, -0/+7That's actually pretty sick...impressive
  • BeeArePro, on 05/30/2008, -0/+8Why are they called rainbows? I understand the rain part, but bows..?
  • warrior007, on 05/30/2008, -0/+7Amazing , this is the first time i saw
  • sirmcdiznuts, on 05/30/2008, -0/+8Never even heard of a moonbow but it looks amazing.
  • DrCrankenstein, on 05/30/2008, -0/+7That is unbelievable. So glad to see that.
  • sloworbit, on 05/30/2008, -0/+7That's pretty,i would like to set on the edge of that rainbow with a leprechaun and do bong hits.And then i would wait till that leprechaun was good and stoned and steal his pot of gold...and go buy more weed.
  • ToeCracker, on 05/30/2008, -0/+7Simply stunning and you learn something new everyday - a moonbow. Would love to see one for real one day.
  • shankarganesh, on 05/30/2008, -0/+7stunning shot
  • Jasper710, on 05/30/2008, -0/+6looks kinda fake, no?
  • thedzigner, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5So, if you get a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, what do you get at the end of a moonbow?
  • oboy, on 05/30/2008, -0/+6Remarkable.
  • madmondo, on 05/30/2008, -0/+6Man that is cool, frist time I've ever seen that.
  • PatrickA, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5Probably the coolest moonbow I will see today.
  • Rockstarsid, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5Cool
  • chethanp, on 05/30/2008, -0/+6fantastic view...rainbow at night?
  • cybrspin, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5wonderful shot absolutley love it :)
  • liamvictor, on 05/30/2008, -0/+6What a cracking find. Thank you
  • bunkertor7, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4And how many cocktails have you had before taking this shot? :D
  • masanook, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3wonder shot
    very nice
    thank you for share
  • hairypothead, on 05/30/2008, -0/+3Now there's something you don't see every day.
  • pixelskew, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2read jentrax's other comments. "God" truly broke the idiot mold on this one.
  • frozzenst, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1amazing photos, diggboss! It looks like Norway in mid-summer, once-in-a-lifetime fantastic shots. The rest of the photos look like experiencing photoshop, right. Still, very nice
  • fakonig, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1Cool, it is spectacular, my dream is to see the Aurora Borealis with my own eyes.
  • jaydoodle, on 05/30/2008, -0/+0Very cool indeed. Nice photos !
  • depanca, on 05/31/2008, -0/+0so.. beautifull.... nice post bro.. ;)
  • SunAlex, on 08/26/2008, -0/+0rainbow at night? never heard about this. I think it's not real. something is wrong.
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    http://www.seguinconservation.org
    http://notesfromthenat.com/
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