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Is this a cloudbow? How does this particular type form?

Is this a cloudbow? How does this particular type form?

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    • December 28, 2022 at 6:18 pm #560053
      Gregory Venarsky avatarGregory Venarsky
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      Here is a photo that I took early in the morning. The sun wasn’t very far above the horizon. I have seen cloud bows before but not in this way. Is this a cloud bow? How does this particular type form?

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    • December 30, 2022 at 6:12 pm #560254
      Hans Stocker avatarHans Stocker
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      You spotted a gorgeous partial cloudbow, Gregory. Nothing mysterious about this one in my opinion. In the same way a rainbow can be partial, also a fogbow can be partial. The bow is only there where the tiny droplets of the clouds in the middle reflect, refract and diffract the light to form the bow. I hope to spot one like that too…. next year?

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