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English: From the high altitude of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, two astrophotographers captured the elusive sunset phenomenon known as the green flash. This stunning trick of light occurs at sunset and sunrise when light from the Sun travels through the thickest part of Earth’s atmosphere. Acting like a prism, Earth's atmosphere bends, or refracts, the light and separates it into its component wavelengths. Blue and violet light are scattered by the atmosphere, while red, orange and yellow are refracted below the solar disk below the horizon, leaving the green light the most visible during the few seconds that the Sun disappears below the horizon. Here, though, is another uncommon phenomenon. Distinct thermal layers above the Pacific Ocean led to a Fata Morgana mirage displaying several green flashes. Two photographers from the recent NOIRLab 2022 Photo Expedition jointly worked the controls of the camera to quickly capture the elusive phenomenon.This image was the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day on 28 March 2023. |
Date | 28 March 2023 (upload date) |
Source | Multiple Green Flashes |
Author | CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský & P. Horálek (IoP Opava) |
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Credit/Provider | CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský & P. Horálek (IoP Opava) |
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Source | NSF's NOIRLab |
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Date and time of data generation | 07:00, 28 March 2023 |
JPEG file comment | From the high altitude of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, two astrophotographers captured the elusive sunset phenomenon known as the green flash. This stunning trick of light occurs at sunset and sunrise when light from the Sun travels through the thickest part of Earth’s atmosphere. Acting like a prism, Earth's atmosphere bends, or refracts, the light and separates it into its component wavelengths. Blue and violet light are scattered by the atmosphere, while red, orange and yellow are refracted below the solar disk below the horizon, leaving the green light the most visible during the few seconds that the Sun disappears below the horizon. Here, though, is another uncommon phenomenon. Distinct thermal layers above the Pacific Ocean led to a Fata Morgana mirage displaying several green flashes. Two photographers from the recent NOIRLab 2022 Photo Expedition jointly worked the controls of the camera to quickly capture the elusive phenomenon. This image was the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day on 28 March 2023. |
Serial number of camera | 172027002478 |
Lens used | TAMRON 100-400mm F/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD A035 |
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File change date and time | 05:14, 25 March 2023 |
Date and time of digitizing | 19:37, 9 April 2022 |
Date metadata was last modified | 05:14, 25 March 2023 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 24.2 (Windows) |
Unique ID of original document | 59968C3A166E13915A3DEEBE05BAA9E7 |
Keywords | Sun |
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