Thursday, August 14, 2008

Caught A Rainbow

Luckily with the constant summer showers I was able to catch several rainbows. The one pictured below was the best of the bunch. It was just a simple rainbow no secondary arc.


Straight from the fire escape at the end of the mini-storm. I learned the easiest way to find a rainbow is while it's raining wait for sun to come out and then turn your back to the sun.


Sure the technical way to locate a rainbow is look for a multicolored arc at a 42° radius, with an option of a secondary inverse rainbow at 51° radius. The problem is that most people can't judge these exact degrees. Also trying to capture a secondary bow with a lower end digital camera is tough.

As long as you have small water drops then the light entering it can refract and separate into the seven colors we see.