I am in Kyoto, Japan, with my wife, on a vacation of a lifetime. We are spending two more nights in a wonderful ryokan here, and then one more night in Tokyo. There are 4.43 gigabytes of pictures in my Tablet PC, I really hope Windows XP / Acer hardware is not going to eat them before I get them into a more secure location. My Canon EOS 300D broke (the poor thing does not power up at all even though the battery is ok), so I am down to my trusty Canon Powershot G2.
Meanwhile, enjoy this picture of a rainbow as seen from an airplane. Yes, it is circular.
P.S. Right, I forgot that it’s April Fool’s today. But I am actually in Japan, this is not a joke. I wish I’d have though of something witty, but it’s a bit too late now.
Sometimes I forget to answer a comment, and then get around to it. I try to answer most comments.
:) surprised to see you read the comments so long after the original post.
anyway the only reason i know about this phenomenon is from reading the weatherunderground.com blogs, which are great.
Wow, I can’t wait to see the pictures!
Deadprogrammer, come home!
I’m baaaaaaaak!
I’ll try to organize and edit the pictures soon.
You deleted your livejournal? I thought I was going insane for a moment before I realized your rss feed was still working.
Yep, I am getting rid of it.
that’s a glory, not a rainbow. but close.
You are technically correct, and that’s the best kind of correct. :)
I’ve seen the explanation that this is simply a rainbow from above, but now, digging deeper I found out about glorys and cloudbows and other stuff. Thanks!