A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than that of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact. - Aldo Leopold

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Double Pots of Gold?

I found a photo of a double rainbow which I took over 5 years ago.

This view is towards the east, in the afternoon, so the sun is behind. This is the classic condition to see a rainbox, always opposite the sun. Sunlight reflects in water droplets and is also refracted, like light through a prism, into the rainbow colors.

Do you remember the order of the colors? VIBGYOR - Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red.

The second rainbow is always outside the primary one and its colors are reversed. It's quite faint here, but you can see it if you look closely. It's caused by light reflecting twice in the water droplets. Only a small part of the sunlight reflects twice, which is why it's dim.

I think there must be two pots of gold out there, near Buda. One may be bigger than the other.

What do you think?

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