Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1916-07-22
LUNAR RAINBOW is
SEEN IN OATMAN
AFTER HEAVY RAIN
From Oatnan section D.ily Minsr.l

From Oatman Section Daily Miner.l
A lunar rainbow was seen under
the rim of the hills to the northeast
of Oatman Friday morning about 3
o'clock.
What is a lunar rainbow? you ask
1t is a rainbow formed by rays of
light of the moon shining through
falling water, instead of the sun.
There are millions or persons who
never even heard of a lunar rainbow,
Just as there are other millions who
never heard of Jupiter or Venus, but
the lunar rainbow is a fact the same
as Jupiter, Venus and the earth are
facts.
The Daily Miner correspondent can
vassed Oatman for an encyclopedia,
but could find none here of any kind
or character, but in Webster's interna-
tional dictionary this definition ap-
pears: Lunar rainbow = fainter
arch or rainbow formed by the moon"
1t was after heavy rain and thuh-
derstorm, which began in Oatman
about , o'clock in the morning. The
rain, lightning and thunder lasted
for about three-quarters of an hour.
The moon was just full and was
within about an hour and half Of
setting in the west. AS the rain con-
tinued to fall, the moon shone under
the clouds and up on the mountain
side back of the Fourth of July
grounds on the United Eastern, the
rainbow was seen by several persons.
One of them, ]. T. Hightower, lives
next door to the Daily Miner repre-
sentative at Ten City. In the morning
little after O'Clock when a bright
rainbow was visible in the west-this
one from the sun-the writer called
Mr.. Hightower's attention to its bril-
liancy and to the fact that there was
not break in the arch from end to
end.
"But you should have seen, the one
1 saw this morning at 3 o'clock made
by the moon,D said he. at was ten
minutes of g."
He described it as quite as brilliant,
full arch without a break and show
ed the spots where the ends appeared
to touch the ground. Later in the day
various persons were asked if they
had seen it. The correspondent met
with one other miner who saw it, and
named the hour at 2:45 o'clock.
E. C. Jacobs, a mining engineer,
who has been around the world three
times, and who has heard of them at
sea in the tropics many times, but
never happened to see one, knows of
several men who saw the one Friday
morning. Mr.. Jacobs says sailors are
very familiar with them and mention
them often.
C. H. James, another mining engi-
neer, who has a long record as a
/ globe-trotter, has seen two of them.
''The first one" he said, twas
while on the China sea. The moon
was full and going down in the west
and rain was falling just as it was
Friday morning. was on the top
deck of the steamer when the rainbow
appeared. 1t was at 2 o'clock in the
morning and I remember the sight
very well. The second one was on the
ocean just inside the TrOpic of Capri
corn, north of Australia. 1t was g
double rainbow. l have often heard
of double rainbows formed by the sun
light, but never before of a double
lunar rainbow. Those were sights thai
l saw myself and can take an oatt
to them"
The dictionary also mentions ma
rine rainbow or seabOw, stating that i
is a similar bow seen in the spray 0.