We were camping in the Caribbean on a full moon night and saw what appeared to be a rainbow. We all experienced some sort of an eerie feeling. The difference with the daytime rainbow was there were no colors, only shades , like a b&w pic.
2007-02-05 09:18:59 · 3 answers · asked by maxon475 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow) is a rainbow that occurs at night. Moonbows are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light from the Moon. As with rainbows, they are always in the opposite part of the sky from the moon.
It is difficult to discern colours in a moonbow because the light is usually too faint to excite the cone colour receptors in our eyes. However, the colours appear in long exposure photographs.
A coloured circle around the moon is not a moonbow - it is usually a 22° halo produced by refraction through hexagonal ice crystals in cirrus cloud. Coloured rings close to the moon are a corona - a diffraction phenomenon produced by very small water droplets or ice crystals in clouds.
2007-02-05 09:29:51 · answer #1 · answered by greg b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have several times seen a moonbow round a full moon
2007-02-05 17:23:31 · answer #2 · answered by Pauline 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Rainbow in the Dark, I saw it at a Dio concert.
2007-02-05 18:43:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋