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Old October 25th 06, 02:40 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tudor Hughes Tudor Hughes is offline
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Default Supernumerary Rainbows seen this evening



On Oct 24, 8:49 pm, Mike Tullett
wrote:
There was a good display of these bows this evening here at about 1800 BST.
I could clearly see three such inner bows and there was a hint of a fourth
in the original images. These are highly compressed photos on this page.

http://www.mtullett.plus.com/24-oct-2006/

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Mike Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 24/10/2006 19:49:01 GMT


Excellent pics. There is a secondary bow visible also in some
of them. The supernumerary bows are caused by diffraction and I wonder
if they are more likely if the drops are smaller. Was that so in this
case?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.