Incredible '˜moonbow' photographed over Yorkshire hills

THE incredible and rare natural phenomenon of a moonbow has been photographed during the unseasonably warm Yorkshire autumn weather.

By The Newsroom

Published 17th Oct 2016, 09:29 BST

Updated 25th Oct 2016, 20:48 BST

Photographer Ben Gwynne sent us these beautiful stills of the arch in the sky, taken at dusk on Sunday, on the moors between Skipton and Keighley.

He said: “I have personally never seen a rainbow at night, never mind photographed one.”

Moonbows, or lunar rainbows, occur when the moon’s light is reflected and refracted off water droplets in the air.

Similar to rainbows, they are created by moonlight instead of direct sunlight.

• Pictures by Ben Gwynne/159photography.co.uk