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1.Explain briefly about moonbow and Compare rainbow and moonbow ?


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Answered by Anonymous
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Explanation:

moonbow is also commonly referred to as a lunar rainbow. A moonbow is a rare natural atmospheric phenomena that occurs when the Moon’s light is reflected and refracted off water droplets in the air.

Moonbows are much fainter than rainbows made by the sun and often appear to be white. This is due to the smaller amount of light reflected from the surface of the moon. The light from the moon is usually too faint to be perceived by the receptors in the human eye, it is difficult for the human eye to discern colors in a moonbow. However, the colors in a moonbow do appear in long exposure photographs.

A bright moon near to its brightest phase known as a full moon is needed in order to have a chance at seeing a moonbow. It must be also be raining opposite the moon, the sky must be dark and the moon must be very low in the sky (about 42º above the horizon). All these put together makes seeing a moonbow very special and rare!

There are some locations around the world where moonbows occur more frequently. Most of these locations tend to have waterfalls, which create layers of mist in the air. Some of these locations include Yosemite National Park in California and Cumberland Falls State Resort Park in Kentucky. Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe and Waimea in Hawaii.

Instead of direct sunlight reflecting through raindrops, the water droplets in the air refract moonlight… which, by the way, is technically still sunlight, since the moon just reflects distant sunlight and doesn’t emit any light of its own. The best time to see a moonbow is around the time of a full moon because the moon is brighter and is giving off more light to refract. Besides the obvious time of day difference,moonbows do look a bit different as well. While daytime rainbows are full of color,the moon isn’t as bright as the sun so there’s less light being refracted through the waterdroplets.This means that moonbows are most often seen as plain white arcs in the sky. But thankfully, long exposure photographs bring out their colors and we can appreciate these rare beauties in all their glory. So rainbows and moonbows are pretty cool.Rainbows have all the colors of white light,red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, but what if you could see more colors than the average person? Have you ever seen a triple rainbow

Answered by keshar05
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Answer:

A moonbow is also commonly referred to as a lunar rainbow. A moonbow is a rare natural atmospheric phenomena that occurs when the Moon's light is reflected and refracted off water droplets in the air. Moonbows are much fainter than rainbows made by the sun and often appear to be white.

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