"The Elusive Beauty of Lunar Rainbows"


	"The Elusive Beauty of Lunar Rainbows"
cakebelly
8-10-2009 1:56 AM
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8-10-2009 4:38 PM
tanyamm
Thanks. I've never heard of lunar rainbows before.
8-10-2009 11:33 PM
JackieDel
I just finished posting a similiar clip and found yours. Thanks for posting. They are wonderful images.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89f42b12-ca58-46a8-a7b4-ef09f176a1ec/0D8E83BF-1EDA-4CD1-A695-05A6FD2AC82E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095" href="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095" style="font-size: 11px;">www.environmentalgraffiti.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.environmentalgraffiti.com/img/CF5C8C4A-E28A-4B99-922C-B85F6336319B" alt="Moonbow_Yosemite_Lower_Fall" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095"><P>When the moon is near its fullest, with barely a cloud veiling its face, certain locations on earth treat observers to the scarcely seen light phenomenon known as the lunar rainbow, or moonbow. Like daytime-occurring rainbows, moonbows are formed when rays of light bounce off <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">water</SPAN></FONT></A> droplets suspended in the air – the vapour of a raincloud, say, or the spray from a thundering waterfall – though of course they are caused by the light not of the sun but of the moon.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095"><STRONG>Driving through a night time archway: Moonbow on Fraser Island, Australia</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.environmentalgraffiti.com/img/72BEE54C-7247-40B3-AEFA-E8CBBF638693" alt="moonbow_rainbow_at_night_fraser_island" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095"><P>Like their diurnal counterparts, moonbows always appear in the part of the sky opposite the celestial body that provides their light source, with the moon thus positioned behind the viewer. Except for those lunar bows whose medium is the mist of waterfalls, a rare combination of a low moon and a dark sky are needed to create this spectacular sight – not to mention rainfall up ahead.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.environmentalgraffiti.com/img/74349C7E-9611-4C49-9B11-028171BC4A8A" alt="Moonbow_over_the_Pacific_Ocean_in_Tahiti" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/elusive-beauty-lunar-rainbows/14095"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.environmentalgraffiti.com/img/8F1A7242-5A7B-4952-A98C-BEA30319E5EA" alt="lunar_rainbow_or_moonbow_over_loch" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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