Image via Steve Beeson, Arizona State University. These droplets actually form a circular arc, with each droplet within the arc dispersing light and reflecting it back towards the observer. The circle (or half-circle) results because there are a collection of suspended droplets in the atmosphere that are capable of concentrating the dispersed light at angles of deviation of 40-42 degrees relative to the original path of light from the sun. In making a rainbow, the angle is between 40 and 42 degrees, depending on the color (wavelength) of the light. One key to rainbows is that the light leaves the collection of raindrops in front of you at an angle. And the light is also reflected, so that those various colors come bouncing back. Ready for some rainbow physics? When making a rainbow, sunlight shining into each individual raindrop is refracted, or split into its component colors. He was in a helicopter flying between a setting sun and a downpour.
#Flat earther perfect horizon full#
| Full circle rainbow was captured over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Australia, in 2013 by Colin Leonhardt of Birdseye View Photography. But, up high, people in airplanes sometimes do see them. You’ll never see a circle rainbow from Earth’s surface because your horizon gets in the way. Third, rainbows are more than half circles. Just know that your eye sees rainbows as flat for the same reason we see the sun and moon as flat disks, because, when we look in the sky, there are no visual cues to tell us otherwise.
More about the three-dimensional quality of rainbows below. It’s more like a mosaic, composed of many separate bits … in three dimensions. A rainbow isn’t a flat two-dimensional image on the dome of sky. Second, know that – when making the rainbow – sunlight is emerging from many raindrops at once. Light and raindrops work together to create a rainbow, but why is it curved? Here are some things to remember before you start, or just skip down to some rainbow physics, or skip to the explanation as to why rainbows are curved, below.įirst, look for a rainbow when the sun is behind you, and there are raindrops falling in front of you. Quote from: InFlatEarth on July 20, 2017, 07:30:58 AM OK, let me get this straight, you took the first photo at an elevation 2527 ft and the horizon was lower 1 degree.Supernumerary rainbow over New York City – J– by Alexander Krivenyshev of. Please redo it again but this time verify your results, maybe instead of taking photos, take a video so we can see the fluxions in the readings. The only conclusion that an educated human can come out is that this video has inaccurate information which you are passing as true. I also find it strange that I can see clouds below the airplane photo, when it is a fact that cloud form at around 6,500 to 20,000 feet. It could be lower or higher than the location that you pointed. Oh by the way, the second shot was done at night and you clearly can’t trust where the horizon is. What you are telling us is that a 300 foot elevation drop cause a 2.3 degrees increase.Ĭan you please show the math to back up your claims, because to me it sounds that you got the reverse outcome.
If the Earth was a globe, should not the horizon been higher at the greater elevation? You took a second photo in an airplane at a lower elevation of 2225 ft and the horizon was lower by 3.3 degrees. OK, let me get this straight, you took the first photo at an elevation 2527 ft and the horizon was lower 1 degree.
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