The green flash

[dmdigital]

This doesn't come over very well in JPG but at sunset today I got the green flash as the sun disappeared.
Picture (reduced for web)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/09/1054.jpg
At 100% Crop
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/09/1055.jpg

Even so I still missed capturing the vertical green flash which I saw through the lens. Maybe tomorrow.

[slt]

Good stuff! :)

Where is it? Looks a bit like Nightcliff in Darwin, where I used to do my evening jogs when the tide was out... Saw a couple of those over the years, but never managed a photo :( Well done!

slt

[Chucaro]

Nice work, can you try to bring it on ACR? I just wonder if in the jpg image it is lost.
Very nice images in any case

[slt]

Where is it?

Saw in another thread that you were in Broome :cool:

[Landy Smurf]

it happens alot in tasmania it has something to do wth the north and south pole
our physics teacher was telling us just the other day

[dmdigital]

Nice work, can you try to bring it on ACR? I just wonder if in the jpg image it is lost.
No I can't as that was ACR and from there to JPEG. I think it's more the downsize of resolution that's killed it.

Yes it is in Broome.

[cal415]

Very cool, i will have to watch for this at sunrise one morning....

[Bushie]

Red Sunset, Green Flash (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/atmos/redsun.html)

Will have to keep a lookout for this.


Martyn

[Captain_Rightfoot]

This sounds like a variant of the corona effect that aeroplanes get. It's light bending around a surface. I've seen it a number of times on jets. The shadow of the plane lands on the cloud with a rainbow like appearance. I can't easily find any reference to this though.