Have you ever seen a green sunset? Well, this is what it looks like. , . I had researched
Have you ever seen a green sunset? Well, this is what it looks like. , . I had researched what’s called the “green flash” of the Maui sunset before going there and while I was intrigued, I had very little expectation to actually witnessing it. For one, it doesn’t happen all the time, and two, it’s fairly brief, so easy to miss. But thanks to my husband’s incessant love for sunsets, whenever we are traveling, we must go chase one or two… or every evening. This time we were on top of Haleakala, 10,000ft above sea level, visibly above the cloud line, watching in awe as the sun dipped below the clouds ( ?! ’ ). The sky must have shown us every color on the spectrum that evening until it finally turned this bright green for about half a minute before slowly dimming and diffusing and we saw our first star. The whole experience was both incredible and puzzling, both terrifying and humbling. Scientifically, the green flash is an atmospheric event that occurs when the horizon is very clear and there is a favorable amount of moisture in the air. As the sun sets, its light becomes highly bent or refracted, separating the colors it normally absorbs so the very top edge appears briefly as a green. While there is no optimal condition that will guarantee a green flash sighting, a green flash is best observed with a clear view of the horizon and in an area that is free of pollution. You are more likely to see a green flash when there is visibility of several miles, almost to the point of the curvature of the earth, and the sky is cloudless ( , ). (at Green Flash) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRnq8oArLCD/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link