Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/18

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Subject: [Leica] Regarding rainbows...
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Mon Dec 18 07:28:29 2006
References: <4cfa589b0612171105l17231fb9x202fa86bd222a601@mail.gmail.com>
 
Every raindrop (vapor drop) acts as a prism and when the angles are  
correct it produces the spectrum. Your glasses altered the angles.
More or less.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com



On Dec 17, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> So why are rainbows polarized? I didn't expect this and I don't think
> I've ever read that they were.
In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Regarding rainbows...)