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Old March 7th 08, 06:28 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Jack ([email protected]) Jack (jack.harrison@gmail.com) is offline
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Default Rainbow this evening, W Somerset

On 7 Mar, 17:43, " cupra" wrote:
Vivid colours (only auto-saturated the image, it *was* this colourful!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/treetop...os/2316259493/


That is a superb photo. I would never have thought that pylons could
add to a scene but they do in this case and very well too.

A little experiment worth trying next time there's a rainbow. Look at
it through a polarising filter (or polarised sunglasses) and rotate
the lens. It provides a superb demonstration that the light from a
rainbow is polarised. I have yet to try the experiment with a sundog
(parhelia) or other atmospheric optical phenomena.

Jack