Ark's picture of the day

[ark]

Today's "picture of the day": Double Rainbow over the SOTT HQ (right in the center!)

 

[katatonically]

I have been hearing, that soon we will have triple rainbows due to pollution.

 

[ark]

I have been hearing, that soon we will have triple rainbows due to pollution.

It is not related to the pollution:

.... In Ireland there is not any pollution to speak of and you see forever and so sharp everything is. Words can not discribe how wonderful a time we had but I am going to give it a whirl.
....
.Oh my....lovely...as the irish would say. We saw like a triple rainbow with both ends visible...I had never seen anything like it in my life.
...

http://www.i-depth.com/P/i/iv02954.frm.Ire5.msg/1336.html

 

[Mr. Premise]

So where's the Pot of Gold?

 

[domi]

So where's the Pot of Gold?

It will be used to supplement donations.

 

[rs]

So where's the Pot of Gold?

It is not necessarily well known, but rainbows are not "bows" but circles. Usually, however, your vantage point does not allow you to see the whole circle.

Once (and only once) I was flying on a business trip to god-knows-where and I just happened to look out the window and I saw a complete circular rainbow, with the secondary ring as well! It was amazingly beautiful and was also very fleeting. In under a minute the plane had flown to a new environment and it was gone.

So, to find the pot of gold, first you have to find the "true" end of the circle...

:O

P.S. It is not as dramatic as the one I saw, but here is a picture which shows the circle:

 

[dant]

I also saw circle rainbows on top of a very high mountain and
it appeared as a halo. Very enlightning experience. I think I
heard someone tell me that it is called: "Morning Glory"? I am
not sure, but again, it was an awesome sight.

 

[rs]

I also saw circle rainbows on top of a very high mountain and
it appeared as a halo. Very enlightning experience. I think I
heard someone tell me that it is called: "Morning Glory"? I am
not sure, but again, it was an awesome sight.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/flash/phenomena.swf

"The Morning Glory"

In northern Australia, the sun rises over the Gulf of Carpentaria every day. Sometimes, however, particularly on spring mornings before dawn, a lone, rolling cloud will stretch from horizon to horizon, blowing low, fast, and straight across the sky. It is often accompanied by gusty wind or mist, and then disappears. It is known as the Morning Glory.

This phenomenon does not occur anywhere else in the world, and has long been a puzzle to scientists.

what do ya say, Ark? you are a scientist, is it a puzzle? :)

Sometimes as many as seven of these clouds roll across the sky in succession, each one a few hundred feet thick but seventy-five miles or more in length.

After analyzing air pressure, wind direction, moisture, and the cloud's passing speed, Australian researchers think that the mass is formed when dry winds coming foo the Cape York Peninsula meet the gulf's moist air. They form a swirl, which could produce the Morning Glory.

Found it on the Internet. They couldn't publish it if it wern't true...

:)

 

[dant]

I think I found a link that kinda shows what I saw. Mine was
brilliant in color, and I saw it from a high mountain in the Steens
Mt. area, southeast corner of Oregon. The funny thing here, is
maybe I really saw my aura in its full glory, riding on the clouds
of heaven :)

Make sure you look for: "Brocken spectrum"

http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/AntarSky.html#PearyArcs
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/droplets/glory.htm (newly added)

Here seems to be a scientific paper on the subject:

http://www.philiplaven.com/p2c.html
http://www.philiplaven.com/p2c1.html

Ark: I don't know if this is useful for you or not but there is some interesting
theories (Mie theory and the Debye series) regarding light here and some
interesting graphs (geometry?) involving light and it's properties? I don't
want to 'vector' you from your focus on bigger matters, but here it is for
what it is worth...

http://www.philiplaven.com/index1.html

and... supernumerary Bow formation (geometric optic violation?):
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/rainbows/supform.htm

 

[dant]

Interesting links Dant! Funny coincidence too, cause I wanted to ask a question regarding the fact that I can see halos of the colour spectrum around the moon, whenever it is visible, and around most sources of light. I started to see them back in 2002 a few weeks after I started to train myself to see auras. Of course I never was able to see "auras", but maybe as a result of too much focusing on things with my eyes, I was left with this vision of rainbow halos around the moon / sources of light. Maybe my vision functionalities were distorted ? Never was able to explain why, and never found any one to give me a good explanation (including my ophtalmologist).

It is not your eyes, apparently, so do not touch it! :)

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/circmoon.htm

 

[Mr. Premise]

Nothing supernatural about that. If the conditions are right with moisture in the air, the moon will generate a dim rainbow.

Interesting links Dant! Funny coincidence too, cause I wanted to ask a question regarding the fact that I can see halos of the colour spectrum around the moon, whenever it is visible, and around most sources of light. I started to see them back in 2002 a few weeks after I started to train myself to see auras. Of course I never was able to see "auras", but maybe as a result of too much focusing on things with my eyes, I was left with this vision of rainbow halos around the moon / sources of light. Maybe my vision functionalities were distorted ? Never was able to explain why, and never found any one to give me a good explanation (including my ophtalmologist).

 

[Pierre]

Once (and only once) I was flying on a business trip to god-knows-where and I just happened to look out the window and I saw a complete circular rainbow, with the secondary ring as well! It was amazingly beautiful and was also very fleeting. In under a minute the plane had flown to a new environment and it was gone.

Most airplanes are equipped with polarized windows. So rainbows can appear in some specific situation. I finally found a website explaining this phenomenom (site dedicated to travel photography) :
http://ww.richard-seaman.com/Photography/Travel/index.html

 

[domi]

I have been hearing, that soon we will have triple rainbows due to pollution.

Rain washes pollution out of the air. Especially particulate and any water solulible chemicals.
I have seen quite a few triple rainbows after a good rain where the air was clear and crisp. I've even driven through a rainbow. No gold though. Maybe a pothole.

 

[dant]

Nothing supernatural about that.

Seemling innocent features of nature is sometimes taken as 'nothing new
under the sun'. But if you look hard, you may be hard pressed to not to be
impressed by it's complexity and it's brilliant intelligence that even today,
scientist are still being baffled and still cannot comprehend it's deep mysteries.

One has to look deeper, remove one's own limitiations (blinders), before they
understand that what they are looking at is beyond simple understanding.

A simple case in point is to look at some of the links I have already provided;
there is a myraid theories involving that of light, geomerty, and the properties
of matter. Deeper mysteries still, is why light itself refracts into multiple colors,
and the C's says: The theory of the prism is incorrect (as I recall).

 

[knowledge_of_self]

Nothing supernatural about that. If the conditions are right with moisture in the air, the moon will generate a dim rainbow.

Interesting links Dant! Funny coincidence too, cause I wanted to ask a question regarding the fact that I can see halos of the colour spectrum around the moon, whenever it is visible, and around most sources of light. I started to see them back in 2002 a few weeks after I started to train myself to see auras. Of course I never was able to see "auras", but maybe as a result of too much focusing on things with my eyes, I was left with this vision of rainbow halos around the moon / sources of light. Maybe my vision functionalities were distorted ? Never was able to explain why, and never found any one to give me a good explanation (including my ophtalmologist).

Hi,

I have seen a Lunar Rainbow several times (most of the time when it is a full moon). I always thought that since a rainbow is cause by light rays hitting moisture that it was probably being caused by the same thing. So I always thought it is logical to assume enough moisture in the air or atmosphere, and the moon's bright light would most likely cause a rainbow affect.

It is truly a wonderful sight!