Rainbow visible from airplane window

Beautiful Rainbow effect and aircraft shadow visible when the aircraft is lit from behind the viewer. I'm afraid the rainbow effect at the start of the video doesn't come apparent on YouTube as well as it does in Windows Media Player, but you can see the ring of colored light around the shadow of the plane later in the video.

Anyone have an explanation for this?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• embraer
• 170
• rainbow
• spectrum
• meteorology
• optical
• illusion

[adsonkool]

i never saw rainbow replyy back

[HowardFair]

Thanks for watching, adsonkool. It is circular and visible when the plane travels over clouds. I admit it is a bit hard to see. The plane's shadow is in the middle of the circular rainbow

[HowardFair]

Enter this in Wikipedia, adsonkool:  Glory_(optical_phenomenon)

Thanks for watching

[LeonSzillard]

heh, the airplane's shadow is always in the exact centre of the rainbow

and the rainbow stays the exact same size, regardless of size of the shadow

[HowardFair]

Nice observations, Leon.  I wonder why that is?

[hankwheels]

It's cool how you can see the shadow of the aiplane on top of the clouds! :) Thank you for posting this!

[MartinHDJ]

Alumina nano particles...

[jojoo1396]

Cool!

[Screech891]

Out of interest where where you flying over/to?

[SuburbAllied]

@MrYorkyporky In this case, that rainbow stalked you....

[adrillikatithang]

shadow of the airplane :D :50

[MrYorkyporky]

follow the rainbow to find the pot of gold

[kibumlover1997]

at 0:33 you can the shadow of the airplane in the clouds

[xxtalitha]

wow

nice video! ;)

5***** stars!