By Mary Drew at Pasty Central on Wednesday, November 3, 2004 - 07:05 am:
Robert Wetton, Rick Olson and Taana Kalliainen, manage to be in the right place, at the right time, providing us with several views of the brilliant rainbow that graced our skies here in the Keweenaw a few days ago. Looks like Robert was in Bootjack, since the color spectrum is converging with Point Mills across the way. Rick was in Lac La Belle and Taana was on the Sturgeon River flats. I was in Houghton, when those colors emerged from the rainclouds and it actually was one of the brightest I've ever seen. After doing a bit of research, I discovered that even though Robert, Rick, Taana and I saw the rainbow at about the same time of day, it wasn't the same rainbow each of us were viewing! According to About Rainbows:
"The spectrum is a special distribution of colors with reference to a definite point, that point being the eye of the observer. Since no single distribution can be the same for two separate points, it makes sense that two observers do not and cannot see the same rainbow. In fact, each eye sees its own rainbow! Of course, a camera lens will record an image of a rainbow which can then be seen by many people"
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