Did you know that there was such a thing as a Moonbow? Same as rainbow but at night!!!!
I had no idea that this existed…. there you go. You can learn something new everyday.
From Merced Sun Star
On a clear night in Yosemite National Park, you can see a rainbow.
At night. Near both the upper and the lower falls. With the dark blue velvety, star-studded sky above, and lots of watery mist below …
Yet only for a few hours of a very few nights during the full moon in springtime and sometimes early summer, will a bow appear in the moonlight.
Often referred to as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow, in the early 1900s John Muir wrote about the “elusive, ethereal moonbow” in his book, “The Yosemite”:
“This grand arc of color, glowing in mild, shapely beauty in so weird and huge a chamber of night shadows, and amid the rush and roar and tumultuous dashing of this thunder-voiced fall, is one of the most impressive and most cheering of all the blessed mountain evangels.”
apparently Brent Gilstrap has been photographing them for the passed 3 years, and says that they look different to the naked eye than they do on film, since most peoples eyes aren’t sensitive enough to pick up the color that is visable with a camera, the moon bow looks like a rainbow would look like in a black and white photo.
Still worth the trip, I would say :-)
Hat tip to Yosemite Blog
Photo credit Brent Gilstrap
Moonbow and Reflection, May 15 2006. Unusually high runoff creates a spectacular scene: A moonbow in Upper Yosemite Falls is reflected in flooded Cook’s Meadow.
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