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id="wxContainer" class="wxForecast fc"> <div id="wxDetail" class="fc"> <div id="wxDescription" class="fc"> <h1 class="articleHeading">Rainbows</h1> <div class="imgright"> <a href="/web/20150316021621/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/image/m/s/rainbow1.jpg" rel="lightbox" class="enlargable" title="Rainbow over England"> <img src="/web/20150316021621im_/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/image/n/4/rainbow1.jpg" alt="Rainbow over England" width="312" height="184"/> </a> </div> <p class="articleIntroText">Rainbows are an arc-shaped spectrum of light which are caused by the reflection of light in water droplets. </p><p>Rainbows are caused when rays of light from the sun hit water droplets which reflect some of the light back. The water droplets are usually rain drops, but could also be spray from a waterfall, a fountain, or even fog. To see a rainbow, you must have the sun shining behind you and the water droplets in front of you.</p><p>Sunlight is made up of a spectrum of different colours that look white when we see them all mixed together. These colours get reflected by slightly different angles inside the raindrop, so they get spread out. This is why we see the familiar colours of the rainbow.</p><p>The rainbow's shape is a circle whose centre is at the anti-solar point. This is the point in the sky that is at the end of an imaginary line that passes through the sun and your head. We can usually only see a part of the rainbow's circle however, because the rest of it is below the horizon.</p><p>The amount of the rainbow circle that is visible therefore depends on how high the sun is in the sky. When the sun is very high, you may see a rainbow that only just appears above the horizon. On the other hand, if you are lucky enough to see a rainbow from a plane or the top of a mountain you might be able to see the whole circle.</p><h2>Double rainbows <span class="imgright" style="width: 312px"> <a href="/web/20150316021621/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/image/q/7/rainbow-double.jpg" rel="lightbox" class="enlargable" title="Double rainbow"> <img src="/web/20150316021621im_/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/image/q/1/rainbow-double1.jpg" alt="Double rainbow" width="312" height="184"/> </a> <span class="descriptionblock"> Double rainbow </span> </span></h2><p>Sometimes we can see a second, larger, rainbow outside the main one. This is called a "secondary" rainbow, and it is formed by rays of light that are reflected inside the rain drop twice. </p><p>If you look carefully, you will see that the extra reflection means that the colours in the secondary rainbow are in the opposite order to the first (or "primary" rainbow). The secondary rainbow is also less bright because the light is being spread over a larger area of the sky.</p><p>The area between the two rainbows is known as 'Alexander's Band', named after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described its occurrence in 200 AD.</p><h2><p style="clear:both"></p>Moonbows <span class="imgright" style="width: 150px"> <a href="/web/20150316021621/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/image/r/g/moonbow.jpg" rel="lightbox" class="enlargable" title="Moonbow"> <img src="/web/20150316021621im_/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/image/4/j/moonbow_2.jpg" alt="Moonbow" width="150" height="184"/> </a> <span class="descriptionblock"> Moonbow </span> </span></h2><p>Although quite rare, it is possible to see a rainbow at night.  If the moon is shining brightly enough, light can be reflected through water droplets in the same way a rainbow is created.  Because the moon is much less bright than the sun, 'moonbows' are much fainter than daytime rainbows. </p><p>This makes the colours difficult to see so they usually look white to the human eye, but you may be able to see the colours in a photograph taken with a long exposure time as in the example to the right.</p><h2>Upside down rainbows</h2><p>Similar in appearance to rainbows, but different in their formation, you may have observed an upside-down rainbow or perhaps a bright circle that surrounds the sun. 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