APOD: 2020 March 18 - Anticrepuscular Rays over Florida

What a gorgeous image Maj William W. 'Bill' Price of Anticrepuscular Rays over Florida! I found a great short explanatory science video, which delineates both Crepuscular and Anticrepuscular Rays! It moves along quickly, so I ask that you watch this in Full Screen mode... It is quite interesting... Enjoy! https://youtu.be/KNYd5PV77hs









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Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Wednesday, March 18, 2020 entitled "Anticrepuscular Rays over Florida."
Image: Anticrepuscular Rays over Florida - Image Credit & Copyright - Bryan Goff
"Explanation: What's happening behind those clouds? Although the scene may appear somehow supernatural, nothing more unusual is occurring than a Sun setting on the other side of the sky. Pictured here are anticrepuscular rays. To understand them, start by picturing common crepuscular rays that are seen any time that sunlight pours though scattered clouds. Now although sunlight indeed travels along straight lines, the projections of these lines onto the spherical sky are great circles. Therefore, the crepuscular rays from a setting (or rising) sun will appear to re-converge on the other side of the sky. At the anti-solar point 180 degrees around from the Sun, they are referred to as anticrepuscular rays. Featured here is a particularly striking display of anticrepuscular rays photographed in 2016 over Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida, USA."

Thank you, my friends Sgt (Join to see) and Maj Marty Hogan for mentioning me.

Anti Crepuscular Rays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfcCHYTMltg

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