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I hadn't noticed the color reversed, can you explain that?
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Very cool pictures! What a sight!
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I hadn't noticed the color reversed, can you explain that? )</font>
I don't want to jump in on texbaylea's answer to this, but it's been a few days, so I'll just offer this. To understand why the colors are reversed in the second rainbow, it helps a lot if you already know how the first rainbow is formed. It basically involves sunlight bending and bouncing inside raindrops, with each raindrop acting like a little prism.
This link is one of the best I have seen for explaining it all.
Hope this is OK.
Tom
I don't want to jump in on texbaylea's answer to this, but it's been a few days, so I'll just offer this. To understand why the colors are reversed in the second rainbow, it helps a lot if you already know how the first rainbow is formed. It basically involves sunlight bending and bouncing inside raindrops, with each raindrop acting like a little prism.
This link is one of the best I have seen for explaining it all.
Hope this is OK.
Tom
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If you look at Tom McD's link, the front surface where the light rays exit the rain drop is also reflective like a "half-silvered mirror" so a portion is reflected back into the rain drop and further dispersed. A "second order" rainbow results when this portion of the light is reflected back and out. Multiple orders exist but are so dim as not to be seen. I have seen 1 or 2 photos that included third order rainbows and the color order is same as the first.
Vernon
If you look at Tom McD's link, the front surface where the light rays exit the rain drop is also reflective like a "half-silvered mirror" so a portion is reflected back into the rain drop and further dispersed. A "second order" rainbow results when this portion of the light is reflected back and out. Multiple orders exist but are so dim as not to be seen. I have seen 1 or 2 photos that included third order rainbows and the color order is same as the first.
Vernon
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With all the gloom and pending doom of parts of the farm house, someone upstairs reminds my family how lucky and blessed we are.
-Mike Z.
-Mike Z.
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This is the left side of the same rainbow that the previous posting had down on the farm house.
I needed a wide-angle camera, as this was a complete rainbow. I don't think I ever saw one before yesterday. It was a blessed moment for us.
-Mike Z.
I needed a wide-angle camera, as this was a complete rainbow. I don't think I ever saw one before yesterday. It was a blessed moment for us.
-Mike Z.
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