Where the Rainbow Ends

We all love a child watching a rainbow and often wondered what happens if you end up in a place where it supposedly starts or ends. Adulthood has destroyed many myths. The end of the rainbow - one of them.

Your attention shots allegedly fixing the end and the beginning of the rainbow.





Rainbow - atmospheric optical and meteorological phenomenon that is observed when illuminated by the sun (and sometimes the Moon) of a set of water drops (rain or fog).





Rainbow looks like a multicolored arc or circle, composed of the colors of the spectrum (from the outer edge of the inside: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).





These are seven colors that are usually distinguished in a rainbow of Russian culture, but it should be borne in mind that in fact, the spectrum is continuous, and its color smoothly into each other through a variety of intermediate shades.





Center of the circle described by the rainbow, lies on a straight line passing through the observer and the Sun, moreover, under the supervision of the rainbow (in contrast to the halo) The sun is always behind the observer, and at the same time see the sun and the rainbow without the use of optical devices is impossible.



To an observer on the ground usually looks like a rainbow arc of the circle, and the higher the point of observation - that it is better (to the mountains or the plane you can see the full circle).





When the sun rises above 42 degrees above the horizon, the rainbow with the Earth's surface is not visible.



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