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Friday, March 12, 2010

Anticrepuscular Rays

TC Gal found this article about anticrepuscular rays. She says she is always looking for them too, but I have to admit, I don't think I've ever seen them.

They are parallel rays of light, coming through clouds, made visible by dust in the air being lit up. They seem to converge due to normal perspective, like a road or a row of houses. The "anti" part part means opposite the sunset(rise).
(Nice pics of the opposite seen here.)

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4 comments:

  1. Marcelo Metayer12 Mar 2010, 21:20:00

    Eolake, I took this picture in 2004: http://aventurasfotolp.blogspot.com/2009/07/rayos.html

    It's an amazing thing to see.

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  2. dave nielsen13 Mar 2010, 22:47:00

    When I saw that I at first thought it said Antidepressant Rays. A lot of people would be searching for those.

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  3. Pascal [P-04referent]14 Mar 2010, 06:12:00

    That TC, always the hopelessly romantic poet. :-)

    Dave,
    LOL!

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  4. Pascal [P-04referent]14 Mar 2010, 06:16:00

    BTW, I've already heard of "Antidepressant Rays". They're called light therapy. In tech talk. ;-)

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