September 30, 2014
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A Full Circle Rainbow over Australia
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APOD published September 30, 2014. Credit: Colin Leonhardt (Birdseye View Photography). A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Have you ever seen an entire rainbow? From the ground, typically, only the top portion of a rainbow is visible because directions toward the ground have fewer raindrops. From the air, though, the entire 360 degree circle of a rainbow is more commonly visible. Pictured here, a full circle rainbow was captured over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Australia last year by a helicopter flying between a setting sun and a downpour. An observer-dependent phenomenon primarily caused by the internal reflection of sunlight by raindrops, the 84-degree diameter rainbow followed the helicopter, intact, for about 5 kilometers. As a bonus, a second rainbow that was more faint and color-reversed was visible outside the first. APOD Astrophotographers: Has your work ever been used for scientific discovery?
Image credit: Colin Leonhardt (Birdseye View Photography)