Double rainbow with Alexander's band
by Konstantinos Kourtidis, Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
A double rainbow after a summer storm in NE Greece. Below is the primary rainbow and above the secondary one (with reversed colours). In between the two, the dark area is the so-called Alexander's band (named after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it around 200 AD).
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- Europe (3703)
- Southern Europe (1616)
- Greece (312)
- Exact location (24.9910 E, 40.9440 N)
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4608 × 3456 px;
image/jpeg; 4.6 MB
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Nikon COOLPIX P510
Taken on 17
August
2014
Submitted on 21 August 2014
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
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Konstantinos Kourtidis (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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