On my bike ride (13.10.2020) I stopped at Espoo's Furuholm pier to watch the sea. At the same time, a small downpour hit and soon a great rainbow phenomenon was visible. I took a picture of it, using my iPhone IP (First Generation) phone at 5.37pm, and then set off on my way back. The rainbow was still quite visible and it was nice to blink while driving. I didn’t immediately notice that there was anything out of the ordinary rainbow in the picture. My wife, who is a member of URSA, instead noticed when transferring the image to the desktop that it might be a reflection rainbow, and urged ...

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As you browse through the summer rainbow images, the reflection rainbow would look like a captured image

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I photographed this rainbow trio just for fun, as I didn’t find it any strange. Cascading rainbows and a few triples have come to the fore before. I ended up putting this in Sky Watch because I noticed others posting triple rainbow pictures here as well. One of the easiest sightings of my life, right from the front door over the neighbor’s roof. Main Rainbow, Side Rainbow and Reflective Main Rainbow

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Showers and rainbows. I didn’t even know there could be more of these. It was bad to have time to shoot, but hurried pictures had to be taken. At their brightest, these were visible shortly after the pictures were taken.

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As I drove, I noticed a bright main rainbow and a moment later also a side rainbow. However, I noticed an extraordinary arc going around a different center starting from the main rainbow, which, however, I could not immediately recognize. I stopped to shoot that I would definitely get it recorded. The phenomenon was visible for at least 10 minutes. From the Sky Watch, I noticed the phenomenon was probably a reflection rainbow.

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Reflective rainbow.

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On the evening of a rainy day, I suddenly noticed a glimpse of the sun and thought I might see a rainbow on the side of my apartment building. I tipped out to look and saw a bright main rainbow, a dimmer side rainbow and to my surprise also a reflective rainbow! I spurt to get a better camera inside and had time to take a picture of the ever-fading phenomenon. There was no time to look for a better place to shoot.

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It was raining at sunset, forming a two-part rainbow. The sun was not visible from the observation site, but I myself suspect a strong side sun as the source of the horizontally reproduced arc.

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The phenomenon clearly shows a rainbow and a second arc above it, but if you look closely at the first image, then a third arc appears between the arcs, starting straight up. I would just like to ask what the phenomenon is and how rare it is.

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Rainbow bowling again from your own balcony. A perfect, colorful main rainbow, but no side rainbow could be seen with the naked eye. However, on the left side of the panoramic image, it just barely separates the opaque snippet. Instead, the vertical light phenomenon rising from the right end of the main rainbow caught my attention. Reflective rainbow! A small examination of the map confirmed my suspicion that the source of the reflection was tiny Iidesjärvi, slightly southeast of the center of Tampere. It seems that its shape relative to the sun and my own location just rightly happened to alm...

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Showers and sunshine produced fine rainbows. At the beginning, up to 4 rainbows were visible: the main rainbow, the interference arc next to the main rainbow, the side rainbow and the arc unknown to us in the picture. Maybe a reflection rainbow.

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Impressive rainbow combination. What could be between that 3rd arched head and the side rainbow?

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First I saw the main and side rainbow, looking for a place to shoot on the road. There was no good place and the arches faded. The point showed a reflection of the main rainbow and when I stopped it started to dim but from Figure 1 it stands out from the right side. I continued my journey and got a picture of the dull basic arc.

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The lightning had to be used, but of course it froze just in the final meters. Pity, after all, was offered a handsome rainbow. Along the evening the rainbow tried but there were only modest snippets on the sides and at times faded away. At 9pm, the dim arc began to appear and it always lasted almost until midnight. Poor luck again when the wide angle is broken, i.e. the focal length adjustment does not work so a 15 mm focal length is not available. It was strict that the main rainbow fit into the image area. Luckily, a new cell phone with a slightly wider field of view so it had to play with ...

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Main rainbow and reflections

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When I watched the telly, a comfy rainbow suddenly appeared in the corner of my eye. From the balcony it looked comically then photographed. I noticed that one arc left 2 arches in different directions in particular.

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Reflective rainbow

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On Midsummer Friday, a fine "three-arch rainbow" was seen. Photo taken from my own beach in Kuopio. The camera happened to have a hollow Olympus OMD1 mk1 and a 25mm f1.8 cake.

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A spectacular rainbow at the end of a thunderstorm. Not so much the wind, but the impressive rumble from several directions at the same time with lightning and pouring rain. Let someone get lost in the same picture with the lightning rainbow.

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A colorful rainbow appeared for a moment during the downpour.

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Perhaps between 5 and 10 minutes, a piece of the arc was visible between the two rainbows, which had time to disappear when I picked up the camera. Image on cell phone and slightly cropped.

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A special design rainbow in Russia behind Vyborg Castle. Described from a car, but the phenomenon is real, not a reflection from a window, etc. Is a vertical arc formed by the light reflected from the water?

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Reflection rainbow on Sunday morning in Koraudikoski, Raudanjoki, Rovaniemi.

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Tourism expanded again, a new, previously inexperienced observation hit its own spot on Saturday as I was on my way to Helsinki. It was raining pouring water and for a moment it was clear and the sun was shining, I started to watch from the bus window if it happened to see the rainbow. Yes, and the sight was special when it had a reflection of a rainbow between the main arch and the side rainbow. The play was quite momentary and really bright and colorful. The picture doesn’t give all the glory to that moment. In fact, it does not give any glory to that moment at all. The location of the obser...

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Behind the back is the sun and the lake surface, in front is a reflective rainbow.

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On August 10, 2016, at 6:30 a.m., I happened to look out the window at home and first saw one rainbow. It took a minute when the other one appeared and at that point I went to the yard to shoot. After a while, there was still a reflection rainbow that I didn’t notice at the time, but I only noticed it when I transferred the images from the phone to the machine.

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Handsome rainbows in the evening sun. Thanks to Jukka for verifying the reflection rainbow. I will inject this observation again when I guess the bit will go transversely at some point.

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Loukusa shed is located by the lake. Behind the opposite shore it rained and the sun shone behind us, causing a bright piece of the main rainbow, a side rainbow, and a piece of the reflection head rainbow.

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The previous completion of the observation report on the counter-cloud rays was interrupted when I noticed the rain sprinkling the sun shining, so we had to adjust out in the hope of a rainbow. Last time, in a similar situation, I pulled a stream of water, but now a small jog to the observation site was rewarded with a bright arc with a side arc and even a reflection arc. Here are two cell phone pictures in the first place, one has to look at whether there is anything relevant in the camera pictures yet.

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The reflection head rainbow was visible at the onset of rain on the right side of the rainbow for about 10 minutes. The reflection was perhaps due to a body of water 2 km away in the direction of the setting sun, which is about 70 m lower than the observation site.

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A very big question mark.

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In a hurry, maybe ten minutes, an extra rainbow of that time was faintly visible. Maybe from reflection? The more common beginning of the second arc itself can be seen in that area of the tree. I took several pictures on my mobile phone and here I attached it from which it stands out most clearly. Another original and another twisted Lightroom. The arch brightened considerably after a while, but before that that more special arch disappeared.

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The best rainbows I have ever seen.

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The lake showed a nice main rainbow, as well as a weaker double rainbow, and a third arc that started at the same point as the main rainbow? Excuse me?! The triple rainbow? I wasn’t right to believe my eyes because I didn’t know that a similar phenomenon even existed. Edit (thanks to Tero): It then became clear that this phenomenon can occur at the water's edge when the light reflected from the water causes the main arc to be slightly different from the light coming directly from the sun, forming an extra arc. The first time I came across something similar, and it looked wonderfully unreal...

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This was the first time I was able to spot a reflected rainbow. My sister noticed a bright rainbow from the window of her room, as a result of which we all rushed into the yard to marvel at the camera. I looked up at the sky and thought that now it might not be a normal side rainbow, and I remembered reading that a rainbow can be reflected from the surface of a body of water. After photographing the sky for some time, I only noticed that the real side rainbow was also dim in the sky. It shows in the last picture I took while the rainbows were already lightening from the sky. The reflected main...

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There was no better camera than the phone when the showers surprised me on an evening run. At first, only the end of the rainbow appeared, but after a while it brightened and the whole arc came out. A piece of the side rainbow was also always visible at times. For a while, a third arc also stood out between the main and side rainbows, which seemed to start at the same point as the main rainbow, and the peak would have been about the same place as the top of the side rainbow when it appeared. The side rain arc and this third visible arc may stand out just from the fourth image, as well as from ...

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I saw a rainbow on Monday night, went to take a picture of it and noticed that it had reflected rainbows next to it.

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Here I record about a special rainbow observation made by my brother Teuvo Hiltunen a couple of years ago. He was saunaing in Posio at his cottage on the shores of Kitka when he noticed the beginning of a very strong colored rainbow, which started from its starting point as if it were two sharply rising beginnings of a rainbow from the same point. However, no conventional arc was created. The calm surface of the Friction reflected the phenomenon into a spectacular X-pattern. When Teuvo fetched a camera from the cottage (an old Olympos dipokoker), the most spectacular colors had time to dim. Ho...

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Really visible rainbow and reflections.

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Double rainbow in Hiisjärvi, Savonlinna, in the evening at 21:45. Duration about a quarter to 30 minutes. The rainbow moved as the sun went down, slowly "to the right."

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In the “table box”, pictures of a really bright rainbow and a reflective rainbow visible between them were found last summer. I noticed the curves while driving home and I was able to shoot less than five minutes after the first sighting. I got the pictures between 22:21 and 22:29 depending on the time of the camera. Three of the images have been captured from video and one in its original format. The pictures were left in the box when I figured I would sometimes take similar pictures in the wider landscapes. There has been no similar phenomenon, and perhaps it may not come. Interested in how ...

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The double rainbow that appeared after the rapidly rising thunderstorm in the afternoon, also appeared as a triple for a moment, but did not catch the slow camera recording. The fine light play lasted about 5 minutes and looked as if the Rainbows had bounded the thunder front.

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Reflective rainbow and side rainbow. Note that this is from Scotland, not Finland. The sun was setting to the west, and there was very water on the west side and dark clouds in the background in the east. The main arc was (almost?) Complete and the reflection arc far up. The shorter optics would have gotten a better picture, but I was late with it. The duration of the phenomenon was of the order of 5–10 min.

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When driving along a dike in N Germany, a bright (reflection) rainbow appeared in the sky and lasted for several minutes. Photographed by a phone camera.

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The sun was already quite low on Punkaharju, when a handsome rainbow sideways flared into the sky. My attention was drawn to a peculiar rainbow pillar (reflective rainbow) that rose directly up to the sky from the base of the main rainbow. The phenomenon was bright, and these images snaped with a cell phone camera don’t really do it justice.

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The summer rain and sun conjured up a pretty rainbow in the sky, showing both ends - I noticed the right end of the rainbow, which seemed to have another, dim arc on the right (i.e. outside) side of the main rainbow, roughly where the secondary arc should be. However, this arc was almost vertical to the horizon! From this I came to the conclusion that it must have been a reflection arc of the main arc from some body of water!

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For my part, the first honest thunderstorm of the year also brought quite a first-class rainbow blast when it came. The crown of the fine play was a very weak, but quite long-lasting, small piece of reflective rainbow. http://tomeklund.kuvat.fi/kuvat/storms/13 Jul 2012 /

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One of the brightest main rainbows I’ve seen, even the side rainbow is quite bright. I separated three interferences, which I dug out of that picture with a gimp. As I photographed, I noticed something colored between the main and side rainbows. It also stood out poorly directly without a camera when you knew what to look for. In the second and third images, the first reflection rainbow I observed, the latter processed. The source of the reflection was either Lake Pitkäjärvi in Espoo (from Leppävaara towards the sun) or Laajalahti (on the rainbow side). I didn’t quite realize now that how that...

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Inspired by Ari Laine's reflection arc observation, I dug a few pictures from the archives of my own observation just over a year ago. Images are unprocessed.

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In the rains of the quietly approaching thunder, a faintly weak reflection arc is seen, a dozen rises from the left corner of the image roughening and a piece of the main arc is visible at the top right. Unfortunately it was so weak that it stands out really badly ... In the second image, that reflection arc stands out better. In the third picture, VeikkoM used the Unsharp mask for that first picture, so we put it here that stands out better.

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Rainbow reflection arc. For the first time I saw and had to take a picture. Attached is an unprocessed image and a color-enhanced image. Both arches were almost as bright and only a short section was visible near the horizon. The reason is the reflection of the sun from the calm surface of Lake Inari.

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