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Old 12-04-2018, 01:55 PM
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Default Re: Atmospheric optical phenomena

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Originally Posted by ceptimus View Post
Triple rainbow photographed in Gloucestershire village.

Seems a bit fishy to me as one of the rainbows isn't concentric with the other two, and its colours are the same way round as the main bright inner rainbow. I wonder if it's just the rainbow due to a "second sun" - for example if the sun was reflecting off some greenhouse roofs or other large reflective structure behind and a bit to one side of the photographer.

Yes, that's definitely something else. It's much too bright, a third rainbow is even fainter than the second one and this thing, whatever it is, is in the wrong place. It should be 40 degrees from the Sun, which is nearly the opposite direction. It's probably a twinned rainbow I guess, it pretty much matches the description.
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