It’s the same function of light been reflected through water vapor that makes rainbows
Re: What's this?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:25 am
by CentralTexasCrude
"Firefall" Yosemite National Park
Re: What's this?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:55 am
by Animal
does the sunlight do that, too?
Re: What's this?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:05 am
by CentralTexasCrude
Animal wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:55 am
does the sunlight do that, too?
Yeah, like your snow mountain top video, it's all the sun's angle of refraction to the viewer. Walk over a few hundred yards, and it's just a wisp of smoke like off the top or a normal waterfall. Now double rainbows? That's an optical illusion.
Re: What's this?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:07 am
by Reservoir Dog
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:05 am
Now double rainbows? That's an optical illusion.
No. Double rainbows are not optical illusions. They actually happen.
Take note in your picture how the color bands in the two rainbows are reversed.
CentralTexasCrude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:05 am
Now double rainbows? That's an optical illusion.
No. Double rainbows are not optical illusions. They actually happen.
Take note in your picture how the color bands in the two rainbows are reversed.
Oh look, ctc wrong again, who would have thought. Oh no. Also, you learn about double rainbows in physical science in 8th 9th grade.
Fine, I misspoke when I said optical illusion. So, sue me.
Okay, Mr. Always Wrong.
Re: What's this?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:49 pm
by CentralTexasCrude
Can we talk mirages
Re: What's this?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:38 am
by QillerDaemon
Growing up on Galveston Bay I used to see ships big and small like that "floating" above the water. Notice you never see the bottom of the boat, and you only see the mirage at a certain range of distance. Too close or too far, the mirage fails.
Re: What's this?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:39 am
by QillerDaemon
Antknot wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:05 pm
Ever hear of the “green flash“.
Is that what we see after Hawk eats too much Chipotle?