3 types of rainbows at Niagara Falls Canada 2015

[Michael Ellestad]

Hallo sky watchers,

After spending 3 days at Niagara Falls last year I loved it so much I had to come back for more. When I came back for the 2015 year I spent a whole week and on the weekends the falls are lit up at night by very large xenon lights on the Canadian side. The sun creates wonderful rainbows in the mist but when the sun goes down on the weekend the lights come on and they create their own rainbows of unique beauty. The lights from time to time change colors and this makes the rainbows even more interesting and seeing a monochromatic rainbow with 3 colors along its circle is very different. I also got nice regular double rainbows and using the wide angle fisheye field of view on my GoPro camera I got full circle rainbows too. My dad and I refer to full circle rainbows as "rain circles" and here is why: a half circle would be a bow but if its a full circle its not a rainbow anymore its a rain circle.

Has any of you folks in this foruam have been to Niagara Falls? If so post your pics.









More pics here in topic on my blog: http://ohio-optics.blogspot.com/2015/08 ... falls.html

Greetings from the USA,

Michael

[Elmar Schmidt]

Hi Michael,

I have relatives in Buffalo, NY, so I've been at the Niagara Falls three times already. Plus later once at the Victoria Falls, which also have beautiful natural rainbows.

What I've never seen, not even in photos, are the lamp bows over the Niagara Falls, so thanks for posting yours. The generating light sources seem to be separate and/or divergent. Therefore the bow's arcs are not all concentric, as seen best in the last photo.

Kind regards

Elmar

[Michael Ellestad]

Well Hey Elmar!

That's cool to hear you got relatives in Buffalo Ny! Niagara Falls had been a childhood dream that came true last year and like I said I loved it so much I had to come back but Victoria falls that would cost a lot more to go to since its in Africa but my passport is good for 8 more years