Reflected primary rainbow, Tampere

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 almost maximize the length of the reflection arc! I had an amazing fax.

Main image taken with a panorama on the phone. The contrast and clarity of the secondary image has been increased to better highlight the reflection arc. In the triangular image, a map of the approximate direction of the reflection arc relative to the observation location.

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Reflected primary rainbow - 19.8.2020 at 19.30 - 19.8.2020 at 19.50 Tampere Observation number 92990