Moonbows
In the darkness of night, rain drops and moonlight meet to create moonbows in the sky.
Did you know you can see rainbows in the dark? They are called moonbows.
Have you ever seen a rainbow after it rains outside?
How many colors do you see in the moonbow? Can you name them all?
Did you know you can see rainbows in the dark? They are called moonbows.
Have you ever seen a rainbow after it rains outside?
How many colors do you see in the moonbow? Can you name them all?
Moonbows are rare and much harder to see in comparison to their daylight twin, the rainbow. Both are of the same formation; an arc of light scattered inside water droplets, shinning outward in a spectrum of color. These miniature prisms are lit by the moon’s reflected light and can only be seen under very specific weather and lunar conditions. Some people confuse the colored circle or hazy halo around the moon as a moonbow, but they are not the same.
Moonbows have fascinated man throughout history. Aristotle wrote of moonbows in 340 BC, Mark Twain delighted in them while visiting Hawaii and John Muir witnessed them at Yosemite Falls, dubbing them "lunar spraybows".
There are several places in the world, mostly waterfalls, where this phenomenon occurs more regularly, but they can also be seen at Kilauea, the most active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Moonbows have fascinated man throughout history. Aristotle wrote of moonbows in 340 BC, Mark Twain delighted in them while visiting Hawaii and John Muir witnessed them at Yosemite Falls, dubbing them "lunar spraybows".
There are several places in the world, mostly waterfalls, where this phenomenon occurs more regularly, but they can also be seen at Kilauea, the most active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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