Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Interference arc outside of secondary 9-28-06

I was outside watching small rainshowers come and go and later on as the sun came out I got small rainbow fragments here and there. Later on while helping my mother take care of the farm animals another strong rainbow formed and this one was unusual because I counted 4 supernummery arcs inside the main bow and I could also see a very well-defined supernummery outside the secondary bow. I enhance both macro images made of the two bows. The USM of the primary shows 5 supernummeries.

1 comment:

Michael Ellestad said...

No Gunther I don't know what the sun elevation was at the time because as soon as it faded I had to get to work helping my mother take care of the farm animals. Supernummeries outside of the secondary are rare buth I can make them easily with a garden hose spray.