Is it possible...??

Question

is it possible to see a rainbow at night time?

i understand how the sunlight strikes the front of a raindrop, white light is refracted and separated into it's component colors. Then bounces off the back of the drop and are bent again as they leave the drop behaving as if they had passed through a prism, =rainbow...

but if it was another object like a astroid etc could it make a rainbow at night?

or is it only auras at night that can be seen?

Answer 1

That's a good one it's a posable because there's the northern light's (in alaska i think) and that happen's at night

Answer 2

It's absolutely possible--the calendar up in my office has a photograph of one this month! This rainbow is produced by the full moon. It's either the Weatherwise or Weather Channel calendar, not sure which one.

Here's a photo of one http://www.atoptics.co.uk/rainbows/moonb...

Answer 3

the moon is bright enough to produce a rainbow, and while rare, people do see it. Since the moon is not near as bright as the sun, the rainbow produced by the moon at night is much weaker than a rainbow produced by the sun during the day. Our eyes see dim things as black and white, not in colour. So a night "moonbow" will look gray not colourful.