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Some awesome physics on display this evening. We have refraction, reflection and thermonuclear fusion, all in one convenient blog post.

Double rainbow

Rainbow with tree

And the light source. Apparently we live in the neighborhood of a gravitationally bound thermonuclear reactor.

Who put that thing in my solar system?

That’s my plane for the trip home.

Another shot with the sun a little lower.

Ridiculous overexposure: it’s there nothing it can’t do?

Heading off to Auckland again. This time I’ve remembered to take a sweater. Displays learning behavior.

This NZ 777 is going to take me across the Tasman. A Cathay 767 is preparing for departure in the background.

My seat is right over the enormous wing.

The moon is close to periapsis, and almost coincident with the antisolar point. We walked across the bridges to see it rise. In unrelated news, my spelling dictionary has two new words.

It’s a railway bridge. Well, two rail bridges, a road bridge and a pedestrian bridge. There were reasons for this.