I’ve never seen a rainbow like this. It appeared yesterday afternoon while I was out and about with friends.
The smile hung in the air for at least 15 minutes.
Who knew that Mother Nature could paint like that?
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art by Nature
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Fabulous capture, not actually a rainbow but a circumzenithal arc, formed by light being refracted through ice crystals instead of water droplets.
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Thanks for that information. We just stood and marvelled.
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I looked it up and yes, there were two suns (a sun dog?) but this didn’t photograph well at all.
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Looks like the pot of gold is raining down somewhere else…….”not actually a rainbow but a circumzenithal arc” pfftttt It’s a rainbow 🙂
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I’m not stalking you Brian. Just reading Elke’s posts two minutes after you, apparently.
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apparently…………
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Apparently, it’s part of the greater halo family!
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I like how rainbows appear and say halo 😂
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Magical!
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😊
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Unusual rainbow. I thought you manipulated the photo to create it until I read Dale’s description of it.
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We were very perplexed. After reading up about it I found out that this phenomenon is not uncommon just usually so high that it can’t be observed on the ground (d’oh – that would make it uncommon, wouldn’t it?).
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It really is that simple sometimes 😀
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