Have You Ever Seen a Lunar Rainbow?

This is not a rainbow . It ’s a moonbow , an extremely rarified atmospherical phenomenon triggered by the near - full moon that it ’s passing unvoiced to catch . So intemperately , in fact , that you could only see its colors thanks to long - picture photography .

It was captured by Wally Pacholka last January 20 , at the Haleakala Crater on the Island of Maui , Hawaii . The moonbow — or lunar rainbow — is induce when the near - full moon at less than 42 degree in a dark sky . The colors are so faint that the human eye color receptors ca n’t be excited enough for the brainpower to describe them . Therefore , they appear as bloodless arcs to the naked eye . Only by using long - exposure picture taking you’re able to unveil the diffraction of the moonlight through the microscopic water droplet debar in the air travel .

By the agency , that red affair shining on the sky ? It ’s Mars rising . Check out the residuum of Wally ’s amazing images at [ Astropics ]

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