“The ship isn’t actually passing through the prismatic effect caused by the high moisture content of the air and the perfect angle of the sun. Awesome photo, but the end of the rainbow can never be reached”
OK. Ya’ll can believe it or not. And I don’t know how or why or even if it’s even possible. I just know it happened.
My girlfriend and I were riding out in the country and across a huge cotton field I saw “the end of the rainbow”. It was a huge rainbow and the end was probably..50 yds. wide and...It was moving and I thought it was just because the car was moving. Coming toward us. So I stopped. And it kept coming. And it passed right over the car. Showered with light, red, yellow, blue, for a couple of seconds and then it moved on across the field on the other side of the road.
Hey, I know what I saw. It was pretty damn cool.
Had some good weed that day?
I’m just referring to physics. A rainbow is a prismatic effect caused by the refraction of light that separates into the full color spectrum (frequencies) due to said bending. The visual experience of a rainbow requires that the sun (the source of light) be at an angle relative to the moisture (prism) and the viewer that places the viewer into the plane of sight. Someone miles away and at a different angle to the moisture and the sun will not see a rainbow or will see a different presentation relative to their position, e.g. the sun won’t be striking the same barn, tree, field.
I’ve experienced coronas around aircraft from my 35 years as professional aviator. The corona being a circular “rainbow” as the aircraft passes through moisture laden air, much as your photo portrays. The corona never moved because it was caused by our relative position to the sun, which even at Mach .80, wasn’t changing quickly enough to to perceptively vary the visual location of the prismatic effect.
Just sayin’........ But the photo was very cool!!!!!