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jaa101 t1_j2cmclf wrote

The brightest rainbow always has the same colour order, with red on the outside, but in ideal conditions a secondary rainbow can become visible outside the primary. The colour order of the secondary rainbow has the red on the inside, the opposite to that of the primary.

The reason for the difference is that the secondary rainbow involves the light being bent through more than 180°, i.e., it's bent back on itself.

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