New Year's day Rainbow

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New Year's day Rainbow

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There was a giant rainbow today, New Year's Day 2007, at around 6:55pm, near sunset.

It stretched from about 5 degrees above one horizon to the next, and about 65 degrees wide.

There was also another faint rainbow above it at one point in time, though only on the left side, as far as i could see.

here is a photo of it, stitched from two. not sure if the upload would be successful, though. Can anyone see the photo? I can't seem to on the preview.

Did anyone else see the rainbow?

Think its a positive sign for S'pore in 2007!
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BTW, by "near sunset" above i meant around the time of sunset.

The rainbow was actually placed opposite from where the sun was, and that's how it always is, from what I've read and been told.
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Post by kayheem »

Didn't see it, but nice shot! Unfortunately, it would've been nicer without the curvature caused by the wide angle lens.
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Post by Airconvent »

haha..hi gavin...someone saw it on the pentax forum and took a picture too but only half. your panoromic picture is good but after sticthing, recommend you crop the end to a rectangle to minimise the impression of curvature.

http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.p ... 321&page=5
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yeah, i saw it while running along LCK road..it was nice with tengah air base as the background..too bad i didnt have a camera w me...
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Rainbow 1st Jan'07

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The colours got more intense after a few min. It stretched all the way to the horizon. Really beautiful....

A rainbow on 1st Jan. A good sign for the year ahead. :)
Have a Happy New Year everyone!
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Post by amin7074 »

Wow....... :shock: very nice shot...notice that while travelling back from Bukit Batok to Bedok ( west to east ) Pan Island Expressway..was very beautiful gift for the year of 2007.. :wink:
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Airconvent wrote:haha..hi gavin...someone saw it on the pentax forum and took a picture too but only half. your panoromic picture is good but after sticthing, recommend you crop the end to a rectangle to minimise the impression of curvature.

http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.p ... 321&page=5
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Post by starfinder »

there was no curvature in either of the original two images. the lens was set at the widest setting (18mm with a digital SLR) because that was the only way to capture the entire rainbow with a minimum of 2 shots.

here is the right half.

the curvature was caused by the program Photostitch. also, i did not want to crop the ends away because i wanted the full width and height of the scene to be shown. maybe i will try to tweak the stitching parametres to see if the curvature can be minimised.
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Post by siahheng »

Beautiful start to the year!! Lets hope this year will be less hazy and with less clouds and no floods!!

Clear skies,

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