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Was hoping that the green flash was stretched out there.
by mhb 4y ago
Was hoping that the green flash was stretched out there.
- joshvm 4y agoIt is prolonged, if it appears. In most places where you can view it (typically sunset over oceans?) it lasts seconds. The flash still relies on the air conditions being amenable above where the sunset is. It's not uncommon for the horizons to be hazy because of blowing snow in your line of sight, or for there to be clouds, etc. But the Sun can be at the right elevation below the horizon for minutes to hours. Byrd claimed it lasted over 35 minutes during his expedition in 1929.
- aj7 4y agoMe too. I SAW the green flash on the beach at Naples, FL. Before, it had been just the title of a very dog-eared book in the UC Berkeley Physics library, that almost everyone in the department had thumbed through at some point.