Green Flash at Sunset

A-Bug was relieved to be back on Earth. As she headed towards the nearest tavern, she tried to remember the ancient astronaut's ditty....how did that go again? Oh yeah: Green flash in the mornin'....drinkers take warnin'!"

it's in my wip too.

cool to see a picture of it. I've never seen one, just heard.

LMAO! I must be particularly violent today because the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture was, "Gee that looks like a nuclear explosion..."

Lurker chimes in -

I saw one just about a month ago looking west over water on a clear day. My wife had never believed it was real. The green lasted for more than three seconds.

I've also seen this, once. In Hawaii, on a purely cloudless day, watching the sun set over the water. It's a purely refractory phenomenon, the blue end of the visible spectrum consisting of the shortest wavelengths and therefore bent most by atmospheric refraction as the sun dips below the horizon. It winds up looking green because there's always some yellowish background color mixed with it. And it lasts only a few seconds.

caw

I've seen them, working at sea. Only rarely, but I'll never forget.... Thanks for posting the link. Major flash-backs in that one picture.

saw it in a sunset over Seychelles - pretty groovy thing.

auntybug said:

Got this from my mom today.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040321.html

Funny - this is from the 1st page of my WIP........ she didn't know about it.

She’d watched sunsets for over twenty years from this very spot and had yet to see the “green flash” everyone talked about. She’s argued it was a myth many a time. If she hadn’t seen one in her “Sunset Professional Status”, they couldn’t exist.


Well I'll be dipped in shit...

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I've never seen or heard of that before. I guess I need to start watching more sunsets. That is a really cool picture, thanks!

Cool picture. I saw one about ten years ago, but at sunrise, not sunset and have been sorta wondering ever since what it was.