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ON Wednesday, December 1, about 11 p.m., we saw here a very fine lunar rainbow. It was a perfect bow in the west, showing on a black sky. At the two ends the colours of the rainbow were to be seen quite plainly, though there was only about half a moon. Had there been a full moon, the sight would have been very fine. The rainbow was visible for about twenty minutes.
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CHRISTY, R. Lunar Rainbow of December 1. Nature 82, 190 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082190a0
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