Killybegs road tonight Rainbow 9pm

Deer Hunter DL

I was driving on the killybegs road tonight and passing through inver i looked to my left and seen a rainbow ? this was at 9 pm it looked to be a fully formed rainbow but with out the color , did anyone else see it or am i maybe starting to go mad ? i am on strong pain killers and probably shouldn't be driving while on them, maybe rainbows at night are one of the side effects lol

billgates

Deer Hunter DL wrote: »

I was driving on the killybegs road tonight and passing through inver i looked to my left and seen a rainbow ? this was at 9 pm it looked to be a fully formed rainbow but with out the color , did anyone else see it or am i maybe starting to go mad ? i am on strong pain killers and probably shouldn't be driving while on them, maybe rainbows at night are one of the side effects lol

Seen it too in the north along the horizon at around 9pm, think it had something to do with the moon, sometimes get a large halo around it, only thing I could think of. Thought it was an aurora of some sort initially.

Harps

Moonbow?

http://www.nightskyhunter.com/Moonbow%20Article.html

muffler

Harps wrote: »

Moonbow?

http://www.nightskyhunter.com/Moonbow%20Article.html

Nah, I prefer to believe the part about him going mad

irish1967

You learn something new every day (or night).

irlpic

Must keep an eye out for this in future, would be good to witness. I find it amazing though that the conditions that are needed to produce a 'moonbow' should be fairly common in these parts (3-4 times a year you'd think anyway) and Ive never even heard of it never mind see one!

Deer Hunter DL

glad someone else seen it ha ha i am ok then so

puffdragon

On the subject of rainbows , why is the sky below the rainbow a lighter colour than that above,various 075.jpg