Someone whos good with science?

[OniEhtRedrum781]

I saw a rainbow aura around the moon once...

A random passer-by yelled out "Hey!!!! There's a rainbow around the moon!!!" and sure enough, there was...

[Oppositional P]

Yay for science!

absolutely, and to hell with everything else!

[Coelho]

I saw a rainbow aura around the moon once...

A random passer-by yelled out "Hey!!!! There's a rainbow around the moon!!!" and sure enough, there was...

Me too! Its an amazing sight! And i saw this around the sun sometimes too...
When there is certain kind of clouds in the sky (cirrus-like ones), if you look to the direction of the sun, through this clouds, with dark glasses, and cover the sun with the hand, looking only to the parts of the clouds very near to the sun, sometimes you can see the some clouds are coloured with the rainbow colors, but mixed. Very impressive, and beautiful too.

[onequickmove]

the different colors of light represent different wavelengths. i think the blue ones are more choppy (like a fast heartbeat on a monitor) and the red ones are more long wavelength, like a drawn out wave; anyway, i think that the red ones get to earth easier than the blue ones; when there's a sunset, and it's orange, it's cuz the sun is low on the horizon and thus as the earth rotates away from it it is farther away and less blue light makes it the distance ( i think)

perhaps similar with the moon? isn't it the same that when it's low on the horizon?

or maybe it's the way the light hits the atmosphere, not sureq

[onequickmove]

Orange Moon

ok, so i was on the right track

[onequickmove]

it's kinda scary how easy it is to find info with the internet and my buddy google these days