I Went to Walk to the Beer Store, and this Beauty Was Staring Me Down

[tekisui]

[Beaverhausen]

1. Wow

and was the beer at the end of that rainbow?

[tekisui]

4. I don't know.

I followed the rainbow for three blocks, until it evaporated. It was shining down on one of my favorite bars, though.

I settle for a six pack back near the house.

[merh]

2. ooooooooooo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q

[bigwillq]

3. Nice!

:) I love rainbows!

[Mugu]

5. Never go out without your camera. n/t

[tekisui]

6. I have learned that the hard way.

The few times I have decided against taking my camera, I have witnessed the strangest things. It is almost a way to guarantee something exciting will happen.

[burning rain]

7. Impressive.

*

[cabbage08]

8. COOL

[Bucky]

9. God wants you to drink more beer

[Orrex]

10. Why is the sky dark outside the rainbow and bright within it?

I asked this question awhile back but didn't have a picture and couldn't articulate it well enough to get a good answer.


Lovely pics!

[tekisui]

11. Alexander's dark band

The light that causes the rainbow emerges out of water droplets at every possible angle up to the radius of the rainbow. So, the light that interacts with the droplets and which reaches your eyes, forms a disk of light, with the colored rainbow at its perimeter. Outside the rainbow, there is no light exiting raindrops in the way that produces the main rainbow. Hence this area appears darker than the area within the bow. The dark area outside the rainbow is called Alexander's dark band.

http://www.weatherscapes.com/techniques.php?cat=optics&page=rainbowfaq

Alexander's Dark Band:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%27s_band

I had never looked into it before. Thanks for the prompt.

[Orrex]

12. That's awesome--thanks!

When I'd talked about it previously (without a rainbow on hand) people tended to think I was crazy. I could still be, but at least I wasn't imagining this!