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[mythias]

moonbow from my front porch - 2026

[visualcontinuum]

Celestial series - Moon bow

[yodapopp]

Moon Bow

[natgeoyourshot]

Top Shot: Somewhere Over the Moonbow

Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.

Your Shot photographer Matt Trivett photographed this moonbow or lunar rainbow in June of 2018. These rare phenomena occur when light from the moon reflects and refracts off the water droplets in the atmosphere. He writes, "I had never seen a rainbow formed by moon light until this moment. My friends and I were high up in the mountains one afternoon, and we got caught in a storm, so we pitched our tents to wait and let it blow through. Finally when it had passed, we walked out around 1am to the overlook, and this is what was left for us on the other side of the storm." Photograph by Matt Trivett

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[kitchenfable]

moon bow with a dark river of sky and a peak of Orion’s Belt

[santandreas]

Victoria Falls

Featured image By Diego Delso,First Gorge, from Zambian side CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73750660 Victoria Falls Aerial panoramic view of the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi River, border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Victoria Falls is the largest sheet of falling water in the world based on its combined width of 1,708 metres (5,604 ft) and height of 108…

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The best thing about ‘Moon Bow’ is not just the visuals, not just the number of fun character interactions, but because Moonbows actually are a real phenomenon - and a rare one at that.

So you’re watching and learning :)

Another gold sticker for the S&D team!

Linkies for more moonbow-based stuff;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37677698

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moonbows.html

https://www.victoriafalls-guide.net/lunar-rainbow.html