Rarely, a moonbow, lunar rainbow or nighttime rainbow, can be seen on strongly moonlit nights.
It is perhaps worthy of mention that on the night of the 27th of July he records having seen another "splendidly colored, lunar rainbow."
In the bright heavens hung a lunar rainbow, one colorful end in the Pacific and the other tumbling into the foliage ashore.
The island is said to derive its name from the ability of an observer, when standing on the island during a full moon, to see "lunar rainbows" in the Niagara mist.
About him the turf was piled with flowers that had the frail and pallid hues of a lunar rainbow.
THE name Luna Island and Luna Falls comes from the fact that the light of a full or nearly full moon creates a lunar rainbow in the mist.
A lovely rainbow spans the waters in the afternoon, rising with the declining sun, and even lunar rainbows are said to be formed in certain aspects of the moon.
Under a full moon on clear nights, an elusive lunar rainbow or moonbow is sometimes formed by the mist emanating from the falls.
"Some day," he replied, "I should enjoy privilege of escorting you along Honolulu water-front, accompanied perhaps by lunar rainbow."
Their deafening boom tossed up lunar rainbows; and Fenna gave them to Maggie for playthings and they dissolved in dark brightness between her fingers.