2007-02-25 14:26:42 · 12 answers · asked by rynophiliac420 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes it is!
Here is some photo!!
2007-02-25 14:56:44 · answer #1 · answered by hyaki ikari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is. They are very faint. The term is a 'moonbow'.
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.
2007-02-25 22:31:05 · answer #2 · answered by Lost in Erehwon 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I saw one several years ago on a hike back from the bottom of the Grand Canyon. There was a rain storm on the other side of the canyon and the moon behind me. It looked like a rainbow in sunlight except instead of colors there were shades of gray. Really cool!
2007-02-25 22:35:43 · answer #3 · answered by cfpops 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I once looked at the moon's light through my primitive spectroscope. It creates a faint almost whitish rainbow, so I'd assume that is what any rainbow created by the moon would look like.
2007-02-26 02:18:02 · answer #4 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but because moonlight is fainter, it is going to be closer to the source. Try a cloudy night and a full moon for maximum brilliance. Look in the clouds around the moon.
2007-02-25 22:56:51 · answer #5 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-02-25 22:33:46 · answer #6 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, at night when the moon is out look at it and there will be a rainbow around it
2007-02-25 22:29:49 · answer #7 · answered by Jacquie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well,m I think it;s possible b/c rainbows are made with light. I haven't seen one but I bet it's pretty.
2007-02-25 22:49:25 · answer #8 · answered by Buffy C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea, gray-shaded rainbow, must look neat.
2007-02-26 01:54:33 · answer #9 · answered by anonymous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well there are moonbows, one in cumberland falls, kentucky and one in africa but I am not sure where exactly in africa..those are a couple of the very few places on earth to see them- they are beautiful..quite breathtaking!
2007-02-25 22:29:52 · answer #10 · answered by dances with cats 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋