YOU GUYS!!

[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;)

[faithfulljohn@mastodon.scot]

@sundogplanets we all need to say this much more often.

[walruths@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets
HELL YEAH EARTH #1

SUCK IT, MARS

[mennowolff@ohai.social]

@sundogplanets
Nine out of ten Kepler-22-ians disagree.

[wordsbyterryl@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Artemis201 @sundogplanets
They would be here now but the planet is not friendly to tourist; with all the radioactive plastic particles floating around, poisons in the food supply and violence with hungry and sick residence left sleeping in the streets.
Every tourist agency in the galaxy has red-lined this star system.
Would anyone want to visit Gaza, Iran or Nigeria right now, no matter how beautiful the beach or assume the eclipse .

[lila_bliblu@mastodon.opportunis.me]

@sundogplanets

OMG DOUBLE RAINBOW SO WOW

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@libroraptor @sundogplanets I'd assume many places have at least something similar to a rainbow, different circumstances for light refraction and possibly different wavelengths even but it'll be out there.

[ladislav_bonita@mastodon.social]

@Walruths @sundogplanets
Yet another reason to send Elon to Mars (one way ticket only).

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

We should take better care of it…

[androcat@toot.cat]

@sundogplanets Nice capture of the light amplification inside the rainbow arc!

[groink@techhub.social]

@CowboyWho @sundogplanets Venus is a hot mess.