3/4 order bows at Taivaanvahti (25th June 2017)

[Timo Kuhmonen]

fyi,

another set of bows, observation by Tero Sipinen (Kangasala, Finland)
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/64816

[Elmar Schmidt]

What is not quite clear to me, is, whether the rain came, from the blue sky like in the middle photograph?

Also, I do not see the 4th order.

Elmar

[Timo Kuhmonen]

difficult to say for me, I was not the observer her - only posted a link. In description there was mentioned that rainfall was very local and hard. I was wondering could there still be some rainfall coming down in the direction of 3/4 orders bow (with blue sky at background), if assumed that the leaving raining cloud is behind the curtain ?

[Elmar Schmidt]

Timo,

it is alway good to have you post sightings from Suomi, although the discussions in Finnish cannot be followed in full (by Bing etc.).

I mean, there ARE blue sky rainbows, cf.

http://www.dewbow.co.uk/bows/bow125m.jpg

so a 3rd order one cannot be ruled out.

Kind regards, Elmar

[Michael Großmann]

Hei Timo,

hard to say, but i don´t think that the observer catched the high order bows. IMHO is this a lensflare, the "lines" are to shape and the distance beetwen the 3rd and 4th order bow is to large. But i agree with Elmar: a 3rd order rainbow cannot be rued out!

Best regards,
Micha

[Timo Kuhmonen]

One canditate (?) for 3rd order bow. Images by Tero Sipinen (Kouvola, Finland)
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/65384

[Elmar Schmidt]

Oh yes, this is a clear-cut 3rd order rainbow.

Suomi taking the lead, all counts considered, I guess. Good job coming out of one of the world's most active AO communities.

Kindly, Elmar