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108madhuri@nerdpol.ch
108madhuri

Oh how exciting, I just saw a "landbow", a #Rainbow not in the sky but on the land.

I have witnessed this a lot when I lived in the mountains. Always thought it was particular to that place, but now there is one right here.

Very hard to capture on camera,,, had to turn up the colour to the max.. of course in real life this is absolutely spectacular. But here is a faint image to share..

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

Photographer Cessna Kutz recently captured this beautiful ‘horizontal rainbow’ from her porch on Lake Sammamish.

The lake is located just outside of Seattle in Bellevue, Washington. The optical phenomenon is actually known as a circumhorizontal arc and occurs when the sun is higher than 58 degrees in the air and cirrus clouds are present.

The ice crystals found in cirrus clouds actually refract the sunlight, creating the ‘horizontal arc’ seen here. If you’re interested in prints, click here.

#CessnaKutz #rainbow #photography

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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

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Have you ever seen an #entire #rainbow?

From the ground, typically, only the top portion of a rainbow is visible because directions toward the ground have fewer raindrops. From the air, though, the entire 360-degree #circle of a #rainbow is more commonly visible.

Pictured here, a #full-circle rainbow was captured over the #Lofoten #Islands of #Norway in September by a drone passing through a rain shower. An observer-dependent phenomenon primarily caused by the internal reflection of sunlight by raindrops, the rainbow has a full diameter of 84 degrees. The #Sun is in the exact opposite direction from the rainbow's center. As a bonus, a second rainbow that was more faint and color-reversed was visible outside the first.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xctzp0dp9uc

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