The sun encircles the shadow of our de Haviland Canada DHC-3 Otter with a double rainbow over the Alaska Range on May 16, 2021.
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Silent Sunday – Round Rainbows
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The sun encircles the shadow of our de Haviland Canada DHC-3 Otter with a double rainbow over the Alaska Range on May 16, 2021.
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That looks really beautiful, nice capture!
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Thanks for your comment. It was lucky that I saw the rainbows so far below the airplane.
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Beautiful
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I’ve never seen such a rainbow! thanks for sharing it…
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I don’t recall seeing one before. Explanations for the phenomenon are complicated, at least to me.
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I never knew they existed…
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so fucking cool!
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Truly! 😄
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Lovely! It didn’t remember the last time I saw halo rainbows like that… 🙂
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I think it is the first time I’ve seen a round rainbow with an image inside. The science behind it seems very complicated.
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Aha! Splendid Brocken spectre and glory! I once managed to witness this optical phenomenon from the top of a mountain (in which case the ‘spectre’ shadow was my own and not that of an aircraft) – https://geotopoi.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/snowdon-brocken-spectre/
By the way, the glory is caused by diffraction by mist / cloud rather then the refraction/reflection effect that causes rainbows.
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Thanks for sharing your post with your spectre image inside the glory. The process by which they are created seems quite complicated.
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Yes, another of nature’s wonders to marvel at!
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Coooooool😊
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Yep. I wonder if more round rainbows are being created that lens of camera and eye don’t pick up. Thanks for taking a look and commenting!
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Rainbows are fascinating and the shape of it make it Even more extra ordinary. A pilot told me once that when they are up in the air they do not see the shape as a bow men more as a right Line. Do you know IF that is true?
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Beautiful halo- like!
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Agreed! It is the first time I’ve seen this unique phenomenon.
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