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Green Flash
Aug 4, 2018 08:06:37 #
Aug 4, 2018 08:07:57 #
insman1132 wrote:
Can't tell you how many times I have sat on the beach here in S.W. FL, at sunset, and . . . . !
Well, still waiting!!
Well, still waiting!!
Me too!
Aug 4, 2018 08:16:01 #
I captured it over the Caribbean Sea off island of St. Martin many years ago. It is NOT a myth, I have seen it many times.
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Aug 4, 2018 08:18:27 #
gwilliams6 wrote:
I captured it over the Caribbean Sea off island of St. Martin many years ago. It is NOT a myth, I have seen it many times.
Nobody is claiming it a myth!
Aug 4, 2018 08:19:35 #
Aug 4, 2018 08:27:29 #
Aug 4, 2018 09:37:16 #
right where the sun goes down, at the instant of sunset. It doesn't last long, it is just a flash.Sometimes very bright, more often so faint it is hard to see. There are plenty of photos of it on the internet.
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Aug 4, 2018 09:39:58 #
I have photographed numerous sunsets around the Tucson area but have never once seen the green flash here. I have seen and photographed it a few times on the beach in Maui.
Aug 4, 2018 09:43:03 #
Once on the west coast. Shooting at 12 frames/second one of the frames caught the green flash.
Aug 4, 2018 09:47:22 #
One interesting thing to note. If you are at altitude and flying in the general direction of the sun, it will last a bit longer, and the separation from the orb will be a tad more dramatic. The one I saw from an airplane was truly spectacular.
Andy
Andy
Aug 4, 2018 09:47:22 #
roowad_1950
Loc: Arizona
I have a couple of views of the "green flash" that I captured during a monsoon sunset. Quite cool.
Aug 4, 2018 11:38:06 #
LA
Loc: Little Rock, AR
roowad_1950 wrote:
Has anyone out there captured the "green flash" at sunset during the monsoon season here?
I have looked for it numerous times, never seen it. But on a cross-Atlantic cruise in May I decided this is why we have continuous mode in cameras. I put the camera is slow repeat and fired away as the Sun was close to disappearing. It took a couple of sunsets before success, but here are some pics from the second attempt.
I took these from my balcony on about Deck 5. A friend -also an astronomer - was trying to photograph from the uppermost deck (12?). I was successful, he was not. I'm not sure whether one can draw a lesson from this about being closer to water level being better, but is makes a little sense. It clearly is easier to photograph than to see visually.
Aug 4, 2018 11:46:46 #
Kingman wrote:
I thought it was all folklore! Still have never seen it!
Not folklore! My son once dressed as the Green Lantern for Halloween and I captured that!!!
Next year I'll have him dress up as the Green Flash, capture that, and post it here!!! LoL
Funny, everybody has captured it but NOBODY has posted it!?!
SS
Aug 4, 2018 12:25:56 #
LA
Loc: Little Rock, AR
SharpShooter wrote:
Funny, everybody has captured it but NOBODY has posted it!?!
SS
Funny, everybody has captured it but NOBODY has posted it!?!
SS
My worst fears realized: I'm nobody.
Aug 4, 2018 14:01:17 #
I live on the side of a hill facing slightly South West over the Pacific Ocean on the California Central Coast. A green flash is rare but I have caught it at least 3 times here (Seen it in Hawaii as well, but couldn't catch it). The formula is that you need a clear sky that produces a sharp horizon line. The sharp horizon acts like a prism to separate the light as you probably learned in High School Physics. You'll see the levels of atmospheric inversions separate the round sun as it sinks below the horizon. At least one of the inversion layers will flash bright emerald green for a fraction of a second. I have seen many more than I have captured! It's best to have the camera shutter on continuous.
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