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    Primary and Secondary Rainbow

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    Primary rainbows form between 40-42 degrees from the antisolar point due to one reflection inside water droplets. Secondary rainbows form outside the primary between 50-52 degrees due to two reflections. A supernumerary rainbow inside the primary is caused by interference of light rays inside extremely small droplets. A lunar rainbow is visible during a full moon but is very faint, appearing as white arcs without special equipment. Fogbows form in cold areas from light reflecting in extremely tiny fog droplets, appearing as an overlapping white band.

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    Primary rainbows form between 40-42 degrees from the antisolar point due to one reflection inside water droplets. Secondary rainbows form outside the primary between 50-52 degrees due to two reflections. A supernumerary rainbow inside the primary is caused by interference of light rays inside extremely small droplets. A lunar rainbow is visible during a full moon but is very faint, appearing as white arcs without special equipment. Fogbows form in cold areas from light reflecting in extremely tiny fog droplets, appearing as an overlapping white band.

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    Primary rainbows form between 40-42 degrees from the antisolar point due to one reflection inside water droplets. Secondary rainbows form outside the primary between 50-52 degrees due to two reflections. A supernumerary rainbow inside the primary is caused by interference of light rays inside extremely small droplets. A lunar rainbow is visible during a full moon but is very faint, appearing as white arcs without special equipment. Fogbows form in cold areas from light reflecting in extremely tiny fog droplets, appearing as an overlapping white band.

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    Primary rainbows form between 40-42 degrees from the antisolar point due to one reflection inside water droplets. Secondary rainbows form outside the primary between 50-52 degrees due to two reflections. A supernumerary rainbow inside the primary is caused by interference of light rays inside extremely small droplets. A lunar rainbow is visible during a full moon but is very faint, appearing as white arcs without special equipment. Fogbows form in cold areas from light reflecting in extremely tiny fog droplets, appearing as an overlapping white band.

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    Primary and Secondary

    Rainbows
    What is a Rainbow?
    Primary and Secondary Rainbows
    Rainbows

    Rainbow is a meteorological
    phenomenon formed by the reflections
    of the light in the water droplets resulting
    in a spectrum of light appearing in the
    sky.
    Primary Rainbows
    The primary rainbow forms between about 40°
    and 42° from the antisolar point. The light path
    involves refraction and a single reflection inside
    the water droplet. If the drops are large, 1
    millimeter or more in diameter, red, green, and
    violet are bright but there is little blue. Such large
    droplets are suggested by the rainbow at right.
    Secondary Rainbows
    Secondary Rainbow will typically be outside or next to the primary
    rainbow. The secondary rainbow will be lighter and diffused as
    compared with primary rainbow. The reflection of light takes place at
    50 tot 52 degrees, in side the water droplets. In this case two
    reflections take place in a water droplet, hence the rays of light get
    scattered due to two reflections that makes it diffused than the primary
    rainbow. Interestingly there is a dark band that forms between primary
    and secondary rainbow, it is known as Alexanders Dark Band
    Supernumerary Rainbow

    A supernumerary rainbow is formed on the inside of the


    primary rainbow. These will be faint or pastel streaks of
    color, that will sometimes also form outside the secondary
    rainbow, but very rarely. A supernumerary rainbow is
    formed due to the interference of the light rays with each
    other, that are of different wavelengths, which have a
    different path of travel after reflection. These rainbows will
    be visible when the water droplets are extremely small.
    Lunar Rainbow
    A lunar rainbow is also known with many names like white
    rainbow or moon bow. This rainbow is not formed due to
    sunlight, but is a result of the near full moon light. Here the
    light from the surface of the moon reflects in tiny droplets
    that causes the refraction and a stream of colors eventually.
    However, a moon bow will be very faint, so much so, that
    the naked eye will not be able to capture it. Without a
    special device the eyes will only see white arcs in the sky.
    Fogbow
    As the name suggests a fogbow is caused due to fog, and not
    tiny water droplets. This happens when the water drops are
    extremely tiny, that light cannot pass through them in the
    same manner as it would in a normal rainbow. The reflection
    takes place, but does not disperse light adequately in its
    colors. Instead the colors overlap that gives a white colored
    band, which is also known as white rainbow. Fogbows will
    typically appear in cold areas.
    Other types of Rainbows:
    • Red Rainbow-occur at sunset, light travels a far distance to reach the
    waterdrops, by the time the light reaches the rain drops the blue end of
    the spectrum is lost or scattered and only red light emerges from the rain
    drop forming red arcs of light.
    • SpiderWebRainbows-dew-covered spiders webs may show fragments of
    rainbows.
    • SurfBows-this occurs at the beach.
    • Roadspraybows-the sprays from car tires that pedestrians try to avoid.
    • GeyserBows-Have you ever seen Old Faithful go off in Yellowstone
    National Park?
    • Mistbows-you can see these from your garden hose.
    Example

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