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[milkman]

I hadn't noticed the color reversed, can you explain that?

 

[Hypernix]

Here's another one... At one time I swear there were 3 rainbows but I could get the camera in time to take a picutre!

Hypernix

 

[Hypernix]

Another shot here...

Hypernix

 

[DmansPadge]

Very cool pictures! What a sight!

 

[TMcD_in_MI]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I hadn't noticed the color reversed, can you explain that? )</font>

I don't want to jump in on texbaylea's answer to this, but it's been a few days, so I'll just offer this. To understand why the colors are reversed in the second rainbow, it helps a lot if you already know how the first rainbow is formed. It basically involves sunlight bending and bouncing inside raindrops, with each raindrop acting like a little prism.


This link is one of the best I have seen for explaining it all.

Hope this is OK.

Tom

 

[texbaylea]

Milkman

If you look at Tom McD's link, the front surface where the light rays exit the rain drop is also reflective like a "half-silvered mirror" so a portion is reflected back into the rain drop and further dispersed. A "second order" rainbow results when this portion of the light is reflected back and out. Multiple orders exist but are so dim as not to be seen. I have seen 1 or 2 photos that included third order rainbows and the color order is same as the first.

Vernon

 

[riptides]

With all the gloom and pending doom of parts of the farm house, someone upstairs reminds my family how lucky and blessed we are.

-Mike Z.

 

[riptides]

This is the left side of the same rainbow that the previous posting had down on the farm house.

I needed a wide-angle camera, as this was a complete rainbow. I don't think I ever saw one before yesterday. It was a blessed moment for us.

-Mike Z.

 

[Gatorboy]

What's up with all the WORDS in this NO WORDS NECESSARY thread? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif