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Victoria Falls Moonbow - Zambia

Photographically the moonbow is best taken from the Zambian Side March-July

lunar rainbow

Two locations noted for their frequent moon bow observations are Kentucky's Cumberland Falls and Africa's Victoria Falls. There, the bows form from drops in the waterfall mist.

A MOON TOUR NOT TO MISS!
Visit the Victoria Falls Parks Rainforest on the dates indicated below and enjoy magical unforgettable night experience in a guided moonlight viewing tour of the Falls. For three nights each month (one on either side of the actual full moon date) the Rainforest is open for a dramatic lunar rainbow – a rare natural phenomenon (also known as a moon bow or lunar bow or white rainbow) produced by the moon

Tour dates for Moonbow 2010

The best time to see Victoria Falls, moonbow, is during a full Moon, at times of high water – the months of January to July.

The spray can be seen for miles, and on a clear, bright, moonlit night (usually from March to July ) it forms something called a “moonbow” — reputedly one of the most staggeringly beautiful natural phenomena on the planet.

It is then that the light of the moon is refracted through the mists that rise up from the base of Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls has predictable, regular Moonbow's

To look on the delicate Lunar Rainbow, which the light of the moon shining through the spray creates, is a natural wonder without equal

When the Moon is Full, it rises at sunset and is visible all night long. At the end of the night, the Full Moon sets just as the Sun rises

This unique event, is visible the day before, the day of and the day after the full moon.

The lunar rainbow is best seen at times of high water Jan to July – the months of March, April, May, June and July are ideal as clear skies are normal and the spray has subsided to a point where the falls are visible.

A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow) is a rainbow that occurs at night. Moonbow's are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light from the Moon. As with rainbows, they are always in the opposite part of the sky from the moon

For obvious reasons, Moonbow's are most easily viewed during full moon, just after astronomical twilight in the evening or before astronomical twilight in the morning (i.e. when the moon is low, not overhead)

Satellite Picture of Victoria Falls