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Gullible-Flounder-79 t1_j2d8xpw wrote

Sort of, the Rainbow is actually a series of concentrical circles. The reason it's a bow is that the horizon usually cuts off the other half and the additional bows are fainter and thus less likely to be seen. The order of the colors reverse for the secondary rainbows.

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czbz t1_j2dhc8r wrote

Yes, and for a rainbow in sunlight the centre of the circle is always exactly opposite the sun, and normally the rain that generates the rainbow is some distance away. It's unusually to be able to look into the distance downwards.

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