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Weather picture of the month August 2005 

 

 

Picture taken at Middelkerke on July 16 2005 at 2152 hours.

 

During sunset light rays are traveling through the densest part of the atmosphere resulting in different phenomena.

The color becomes yellow to red due to scattering of the shorter wavelengths. The Sun also  becomes deformed i.e. flattened and "laminated" due to refraction. The latter effect is the result when light passes through atmosphere layers with different density each refracted in their own way thus leading to wide and less wide horizontal peaces ("laminated" effect) in the Sun disk. This kind of deformation is affined with mirages.  

 

The picture shows the "laminated" form of a red sunset and the upper part even seems detached from the Sun disk. The lower darker part was traveling through hazy layers.



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