amehta Loc: Boston

Clearly you have you assignment.

amehta Loc: Boston

The power of the "url" tag: long tag here: green flash google search

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sbesaw Loc: Boston

Also reports of a blue flash. discussed a lot in Hawaii. see below for examples of both

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/gfim9.htm

doogie Loc: Washington

I will confirm that the "Green Flash" does exist. I saw it once back in 2004 at the moment of sunset. We were underway in the N. Atlantic and I was standing Helmsman watch. Strangest thing I've ever seen before or since; not to mention it gave me the chills. I asked my skipper about it (who saw it at the same time) and he told me that there is an old legend having to do with it. When you see the green flash it means a Sailor has died and his soul comes back as an Albatross. Just a legend mind you.

V/r,
Doogie

rizer Loc: Long Island, NY

The green flash absolutely exists. It occurs just before the last spec of the sun goes under the horizon. I was in Marco Island, which is SW Florida, using the video on my camera. I captured the green flash on the video. Very cool!!

skylane5sp Loc: Puyallup, WA

It's actually not just green, but the entire spectrum caused by sunlight refracting just before it goes out of sight. The brilliant emerald is the color that is most visible. I've seen it twice at sunset in San Diego. Both times the green reflected underneath some clouds that were near the horizon. It started in the center and moved rapidly outwards to either side. Sort of like the light "cone" of a rainbow but from the other direction if that makes any sense. I suppose it would be possible to fly at the correct speed and altitude to see it continuously but it would be a very tiny "target"

Ellowynne Loc: Central New Jersey

Thank you all for your comments. I will keep my eyes open and my camera ready!

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Green flashes are real. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

I live on the gulf coast of Florida and shoot many sunsets. I have seen the green flash only a few times, so it does happen. It is very brief and the only way one can record it is with video. It seems to occur right after the top of the sun drops below the horizon.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Sure does. Someone posted a picture here a while back. It's like deciding to go out and take pictures of a rainbow, though. It doesn't appear on demand.

daddybear Loc: Brunswick, NY

Yes it does exist. I know it as the "Green Snap" and have seen it twice on Cape Cod, MA but at sunrise.

Daddybear

dixiemegapixel Loc: Salemburg, NC

Momma and I have witnessed the Green Flash several times; Most notably in Hawaii, and once in South Florida. Most spectacular? Once I saw one from an aircraft while returning from my father's funeral. They only last for an instant, but are unforgettable.

PilgrimHarry

Hi,I am a retired Navy Meteorologist and Oceanographer. The "Green Flash" is indeed a real meteorological atmospheric phenomena. I have seen it many times at sea and on land. You do need a clean relatively haze free horizon. Moisture in the atmosphere can mask the ability to see it. Light from the sun's spectrum can be divided into different wavelengths from Red,Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violot (ROY G BIV is a way to remember it). As the sun sets and rises these colors or wavelengths are absorbed and or scattered by the atmosphere. How much depends on the amount of moisture present. That is why the sky changes color as the sun rises and sets. The shorter wavelengths (red spectrum) is absorbed first, the longer blue wavelengths are last/longest to be seen. That is one reason the sky seems blue. I am sure you have heard the saying Red sky in morning, sailor take warning. Red is the color we see first in the morning under certain atmospheric conditions, it is a shorter wavelength. The presence of an approaching storm front often has high moisture air ahead of it scattering the red spectrum light. Red sky at night Sailors delight..the storm has passed and the scattered red sky light is brief but bright. The atmospheric conditions need to be just right to see the green flash. It is indeed a brief "flash" of green or mid spectrum light seen on the horizon as the sun sets.

jrb1213 Loc: McDonough GEorgia

Sarge's photo is a phenomenon called Sun Columns or Sun Pillars. They are caused by ice crystals or water droplets.

amehta Loc: Boston

Red is the longer wavelength, blue is shorter.