YOU GUYS!!

[catlynn@nerdculture.de]

@thomasfuchs @sundogplanets Fabulous!! 🤩

[artemis201@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets

my favorite "it just happens" thing about earth is that we get solar eclipses. I wish I knew what the statistical likelihood of a planet's moon being the exact right size and distance to do a perfect solar eclipse. Aliens would visit here as a tourist attraction just to see one.

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@Artemis201 YES I totally agree!

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@sundogplanets I love staring at the sky, even in the city. Sometimes, we get these extra clear nights and I feel like celebrating that I can see a few more stars than usual.

What a planet.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@sundogplanets i always say that, if we ever make contact with aliens, they will bus them in by the thousands to see our solar eclipses.

[zjb@mastodon.social]

哇这也太激动人心了！每次看到这种自然奇观都忍不住感叹地球真的太神奇了，能和你一起生活在这个星球上真是件幸福的事 (´▽｀)

[dg3hda@aschaffenburg.social]

@sundogplanets that sentence from "Idiocracy" was in my mind immediately.

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

#photography
#rainbow
#tree
#AltText

[riaresists@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets ️ ️

[swope@mstdn.plus]

@sundogplanets

DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY!

[dilmandila@mograph.social]

@sundogplanets I saw a bright rainbow too in a residential suburb of Kampala. The first bright one I was seeing in a loooong time.

[sharponlooker@mastodon.social]

@colinburgess @joannaholman @sundogplanets we got one too yday on the other side of the pond.

But this one was better: https://mastodon.social/@sharponlooker/116614260142102657

[hedgewizard@beige.party]

@mayintoronto @sundogplanets
Was going to say 'Nice try Professor Sam, but no discount'

[libroraptor@mastodon.nz]

@sundogplanets Nice secondary, and a subtle hint of Alexander's dark band – I've never understood why the dark band doesn't always contrast much with the outside of the secondary.

But on to bigger things – are bows really unique to Earth? Not even anywhere else in the solar system? I've never thought about this before but realise that I've merely assumed that ice-crystal optical effects would be quite abundant even if water-drop effects aren't.

[bzdev@fosstodon.org]

@sundogplanets As I recall, before we had digital cameras, I took a picture of a double rainbow (there's a hint of one in Sam's picture) while visiting Canada - in my case, in the Bugaboos, located in British Columbia.

[harryk61@social.vivaldi.net]

@sundogplanets I say "Earth first!".

[openrisk@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets @Artemis201

the attempt at rational explanation is that 1) since "we" happened, this is a part of the universe where some pretty complex shit happens. 2) Part of being "we" is pattern matching a torrent of external stimuli. Developed as a utilitarian evolutionary adaptation but thankfully it cant be limited to that. 3) Applying 2 to 1 acts like a sieve and unearths some "remarkable" phenomena and coincidences which brings us to this thread

Anyway, I tried

[misjavanlaatum@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sundogplanets mumble mumble ...any planet with a sufficiently transparent atmosphere with some vapour or particulate in it, will most likely have these... mumble mumble. But no, all that aside: great shot and agreed - this planet is surprising and pretty!

Edit: gave it some more thought and yeah, this will definitely not be a very common phenomenon. Also, why haven't we seen them on Mars? Dust particles the wrong shape? Not reflective enough?

[coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

there was a trend to proudly post your cool sky photos with the name of the store parking lot you were standing in

[dmtomas@mastodon.social]

@colinburgess @joannaholman @sundogplanets yea, sometimes, one can find beauty and literal awesomeness of mundane;)