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SteveD | 09:04 Wed 26th Aug 2009 | Science
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The other evening, following a rainstorm, the clouds moved away leaving a clear sky with the low sun shining brightly. The result was a spectacular, double rainbow.

If similar conditions existed at night, but with a full moon instead of the sun, would a rainbow also appear?
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Here's someone who's claiming to have seen one

http://eo.ucar.edu/rainbows/Mikkelson.html
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Sun showers are much more common than Moon showers. Such a Moon rainbow would be of such low light intensity as to appear monochrome to the naked eye. Long exposures by camera will bring out the colour though.
There are also 'fogbows' - quite spectacular.

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/fogbow.htm

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