‘Incredibly rare rainbow’ photographed in Highlands
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49030378
Described in the article as a triple rainbow but really it’s a supernumary bow.
Splendid.
dv said:
‘Incredibly rare rainbow’ photographed in Highlandshttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49030378
Described in the article as a triple rainbow but really it’s a supernumary bow.
Are you going to volunteer as professor of rainbows?
It does say it’s a combination of twinned and supernumary rainbows.
What is the difference anyway?
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
‘Incredibly rare rainbow’ photographed in Highlandshttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49030378
Described in the article as a triple rainbow but really it’s a supernumary bow.
Are you going to volunteer as professor of rainbows?
It does say it’s a combination of twinned and supernumary rainbows.
What is the difference anyway?
Loch Lochy. They’re having a laugh. As in Lochy mc Loch face.
read that
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
‘Incredibly rare rainbow’ photographed in Highlandshttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49030378
Described in the article as a triple rainbow but really it’s a supernumary bow.
Are you going to volunteer as professor of rainbows?
It does say it’s a combination of twinned and supernumary rainbows.
What is the difference anyway?
Only one rainbow inside the main one. Here’s a picture of four from 2018.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181002.html
Explanation: Yes, but can your rainbow do this? After the remnants of Hurricane Florence passed over the Jersey Shore, New Jersey, USA last month, the Sun came out in one direction but something quite unusual appeared in the opposite direction: a hall of rainbows. Over the course of a next half hour, to the delight of the photographer and his daughter, vibrant supernumerary rainbows faded in and out, with at least five captured in this featured single shot.
Supernumerary rainbows only form when falling water droplets are all nearly the same size and typically less than a millimeter across. Then, sunlight will not only reflect from inside the raindrops, but interfere, a wave phenomenon similar to ripples on a pond when a stone is thrown in. In fact, supernumerary rainbows can only be explained with waves, and their noted existence in the early 1800s was considered early evidence of light’s wave nature.
seems pretty common, not sure about this “incredibly rare” thing
SCIENCE said:
seems pretty common, not sure about this “incredibly rare” thing
I don’t have an explanation for this one. I’m not even sure it’s genuine.
mollwollfumble said:
I don’t have an explanation for this one. I’m not even sure it’s genuine.
Probably just taken on a planet with two suns
Then there was this,
from ISBN 9780195577563 Oxford Insight Science 9, on page 235.
SCIENCE said:
Then there was this,
from ISBN 9780195577563 Oxford Insight Science 9, on page 235.
Some great foruming there.
SCIENCE said:
Then there was this,http://nrpc.byethost10.com/rainbow.png
from ISBN 9780195577563 Oxford Insight Science 9, on page 235.
This one?
this one
totally not faked
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