3 Circular rainbow

[landscapetog]

Sadly I didn't use auto bracketing with the component images, and I need to use a better stitcher than Adobe, but circular rainbows are an awesome sight you can really only effectively capture with drones:

 

[MS Coast]

Very nice. Part of the second circle is even visible in the upper left.

 

[Baconmaker]

Wow that's incredible!

 

[Rchawks]

Double rainbow..

 

[Dronecation]

Wonderful shots. Most folks don't realise that rainbows are really circles.

Rainbows are actually full circles. A physicist explains

Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.

bigthink.com

 

[Jannek]

Wow thats nice! Never seen that one

 

[Ralph thompson]

Sadly I didn't use auto bracketing with the component images, and I need to use a better stitcher than Adobe, but circular rainbows are an awesome sight you can really only effectively capture with drones:

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You could try PTGui, it gives more options for the projection.
What altitude were you at?

 

[Hemi]

Sadly I didn't use auto bracketing with the component images, and I need to use a better stitcher than Adobe, but circular rainbows are an awesome sight you can really only effectively capture with drones:

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That is awesome, I’ve never seen one before! Thank you for sharing

 

[Kuiper Denizen]

I’m up in the air first chance I get!

 

[PanoVolo]

amazing

 

[landscapetog]

You could try PTGui, it gives more options for the projection.
What altitude were you at?

Was up around 100' AGL vs the launch point on a ridge, probably 300' AGL where the drone was hovering over that same ridge. The valley below is much deeper than that, dropping around 2000' elevation from the ridgeline (Pisgah NF, Max Patch vicinity).

 

[fignewton]

Sadly I didn't use auto bracketing with the component images, and I need to use a better stitcher than Adobe, but circular rainbows are an awesome sight you can really only effectively capture with drones:

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You are right only with a drone awesome photo

 

[russpury]

Circular rainbows are a common phenomenon when cloud flying in airplanes. It happens anytime the sun is directly behind you. You then fly into your own shadow. It's really a cool thing to see, but it requires instrument flight clearance, which, sadly, so far, we can't get with drones. These are excellent shots.

 

[landscapetog]

Circular rainbows are a common phenomenon when cloud flying in airplanes. It happens anytime the sun is directly behind you. You then fly into your own shadow. It's really a cool thing to see, but it requires instrument flight clearance, which, sadly, so far, we can't get with drones. These are excellent shots.

Thanks Russ!

I've also seen glories which are exactly as you describe, much smaller and less brilliant circular rainbow-like optical phenomena versus the more traditional water-droplet rainbows as shown here.

Sundogs are also not uncommon, and other ice-crystal optical phenomena often seen with high-altitude cirrus clouds.

 

[landscapetog]

Okay, I redid the blend using the latest version of ACR / Photoshop and then did a warp to make it fit a circle to remove the lumpiness from the rainbow's circle.