Timeline for Does this optical phenomenon have a name?
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 14:30 | history | edited | hichris123♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 134 characters in body |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 13:31 | history | edited | user158589 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Took down a photo because I don't agree of creative commons license. |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 11:03 | history | edited | user158589 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added a new illustration and info on the sun's angle |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 10:43 | comment | added | user158589 | @IsopycnalOscillation that's right, this photograph was taken of the left reflection. The sun was even further left as the shadows indicate, and the other reflection was on the right side of this one, but there was too much distance between them to see both simultaneously. | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 23:35 | comment | added | Isopycnal Oscillation | @Mr_Green You can see from the shadows being cast by the trees. From that you can deduce the sun was mostly to the left and a little behind the observer. | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 21:49 | answer | added | haresfur | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 17:42 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 25, 2015 at 17:29 | history | edited | hichris123♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Make the picture inline, while retaining the dropbox link |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 8:50 | history | edited | user158589 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Added a picture. Edited the picture to come from my own source because the metadata incl. copyright data should be there. |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 8:38 | comment | added | user158589 | @farrenthrope that's a very interesting website full of information. However I didn't find any examples matching what I saw. | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 8:37 | comment | added | user158589 | @Mr_Green I was on a little row boat. There is no front/back/left/right because I can turn around and be oriented any which way I like and the subjective directions will change accordingly. I've already explained that if I'm in the center of an imagined triangle and look into any one corner's direction, the field of vision of a human being only allows me to see one corner at a time, meaning that the two other corners will always remain far back left and right. And because the phenomenons are reflections, they moved along as I kept rowing across the lake. | |
| Nov 25, 2015 at 4:51 | comment | added | Mr_Green | @user158589 As casey asked before, please mention whether the sun was behind you or infront of you.. (or on left/right side) | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 22:19 | comment | added | f.thorpe♦ | Hard to understand what you mean. Perhaps this site with a list of bow-types and image gallery will help: atoptics.co.uk/bows.htm | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 21:35 | comment | added | user158589 | @casey I'm in the middle of the lake, and when the elements form a triangle around me, each instance is too far from another for me to be able to see, for example, the sun as well as a reflection at the same time. One or the other will always be behind me. The location is exactly like it would be for a normal rainbow. | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 20:01 | comment | added | casey | I understand that much, but it isn't clear to me from that how you are oriented. I could assume you were looking at the sunrise, but I'd rather hear that specifically than assume it because solar orientation plays a role on possible optical phenomena. | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 19:58 | comment | added | user158589 | @casey I actually just described it there: I was in the middle of a lake, while the sun, and the two identical colorful reflections on the water's surface appeared to enclose me into an approximate triangle. | |
| Nov 24, 2015 at 16:11 | comment | added | casey | Where was the sun relative to you and the image you saw when you saw it (e.g. directly behind you, in front of you)? | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 23:29 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 23:25 | history | asked | user158589 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |