Upside down rainbow?

I can't believe you've never seen a rainbow! How horrid! You, as a photorapher, should try to find a way to see on!

Nope never seen one..but then there's not much open spaces around here to get that chance--just lousy apartment buildings

Oh, GOSH, Pye! NEVER? You gotta DO something about THAT! The only way you really can (except of course, by accident) is to become a dyed-in-the-wool SKY WATCHER! I mean EVERY chance you get, you look! Rainbows (& MOONbows...yes, there IS such a thing) re, after all, not noisy things, so if you want to catch one, you have to watch for one! Or, well, you COULD just go get the sun behind your back & stand in from of a lawn sprinkler, or a fountain.... But those are man-made. Still pretty, but there's something just so _magical_ & AWESOME about one that stretches all across the sky. Better yet, a double or triple one! I've seen MANY double ones, one triple, & ONE that was just concentric circles all the way to the center point. One of the other wonderful things I saw once bears telling of here. I was selling flowers on a street corner, & it was a slow day. I was reading something, so I wasn't paying any attention to ANYthing around me, let alone the sky. Eventually I stopped & stood up to stretch, & out of habit, glanced upward to check out what the ever-changing sky looked like. I was dumbstruck. Literally. Silently, about 15 to 20 feet over my head, was an endless, living, jeweled carpet of Monarch butterflies on their annual migration, & I'd been sitting under this sight obliviously for who knew how long! I looked around, & NO-ONE else had noticed them! I wanted to shout--LOOK UP, everyone! But I didn't. I regret that. If I hadn't been a skywatcher, I would never have known. Look up. Maggiepie

isn't that just one of the most beautiful things you have ever seen I know some that can't even see the streaks, so I feel for them even more.

You wish you were near a polar region! (Honestly, I don't like the snow enough to want to live where you do) but I am ever further away so I really doubt I'll ever see one!

Once in a great while they tell us we are seeing the northern lights here, mostly as a redish glow in the north sky. I do know once during a heavy sunspot activity when I was summering in NJ I did actually see that said redish glow (tho from Point Pleasent Beach you can also see the glow of NYC but that's not red.) I'd love to see the sheets of light of the Aurora Borealis (or the Aurora Austrialius - the southern lights.)

I never thought a rainbow was a frown, I just thought we were looking at it from the WRONG direction.

I always figured it was to be seen from God's direction.

So we really are walking upside down!!! I just thought it was me! lol.

I remember that so well. I also remember the day I was waiting at a light, looking at the rainbows in the clouds also by the sun when the guy behind me hit me! Then locked himself out of his car! What a fiasco!

LOL! A "fiasco" from the Gas Co.? Sorry, MyLotters! In joke twixt Elic & I! Maggiepie (who will now go punish herself with 40 lashes) (or a banana popsicle....)

isn't it beautiful! I love rainbows myself

yes very beautiful.i even copy it.its great and unique.

isn't it so - lovely! beyond cool!

Oh, I'd've known I was seeing a rainbow, but I wouldn't have known WHY it looked like it did. Aren't we the lucky ones that a scientiest was the one who saw and captured it on film!

It was a phenominon that happens in the artic more than any other place. No, never saw a fog bow, tho I have heard of them.

Isn't that the truth! I would love to see many things, the Aurora, this kind of rainbow.

I'm glad you liked it - I know I did, I love rainbows and have nearly wrecked the car looking at them!

A straightline rainbow - gee - too bad you can't get that online and post it for us, I'm sure it had to do with the angle of the sun/the rain. I have seen some photos of some fairly flat (nearly straight) rainbows. I thought this so interesting that I had to share the artical with all my friends!

I doubt it is global warming since it is normally a POLAR event - that would be global cooling. I think its just a freakish event and we are lucky it was an astronomer that spotted it!

I'm glad the lady that did see it was able to take such a nice picture of it, guess its a case of being in the right place at the right time with the right camera and KNOWING what you are seeing!

I have twice seen rainbows toward the sun - because of the clouds that were in front of the sun, but it wasn't easy to see them - I'm a cloud watcher tho.

I wish I had seen it too. Since the picture was taken by a scientiest I'm sure it isn't doctored. I have, myself, seen a couple of rainbows in the direction of the sun (the sun being behind the clouds making the rainbows.) So I very much doubt this picture is doctored.