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Lunar Rainbow

Nature volume 34, page 469 (1886)Cite this article

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A BEAUTIFUL lunar rainbow was plainly visible here for a few moments last evening. The eastern sky being clear, the moon looked fully out from behind dark clouds in the west at a moment when rain was falling lightly. Turning quickly away from her light, in the hope of seeing a bow, I was not disappointed. A semicircle of pale, whitish light, was projected against the eastern sky, much smaller in diameter, apparently, than a sun-bow, and without any traces of colour.

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PIDGEON, D. Lunar Rainbow. Nature 34, 469 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034469c0

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