This would be a new series following my educational posts I used to make giving in depth information about certain things that is known, or enlightening you with obscure aspects present in our real world such as the green flash which might be thought of as a myth, however it is a real optical phenomenon. If something interests you and feel it is unfamiliar and can be educational right it down in the comments and it might be in the next post.
1). Green Flashes
Green flashes are optical phenomenons as previously mentioned that are occur during sunrise and sunsets. It is a green flash present just when the sun is set or before the sun rise. |
These flashes occur due to different layers of the atmosphere refracting the light. Light with a higher frequency tends to refract more than light that has higher wavelength |
One might think that since violet light changes its angle of movement the least when passing through different mediums that the flash should be violet.
And that would be true but photons with smaller wavelength tend to collide more frequently with |
Sometimes the refraction of the light is not enough where it would not be apparent, hence the presence of a mirage is often needed. The mirage amplifies the effect of the refraction and causes the green flash to appear as if it is separated from the reset of the sun.
Provided that you do not know what are mirages and how they happen. Mirages are also optical phenomenons that commonly happen in hot flat plains, where the hot air heated from the ground is underneath the cool air so the incoming light gets refracted upwards. As a result the place where the mirage happens looks like water (where some light would do total internal reflection) that it appears to capture the scenery around it, the light coming from these area towards the ground is refracted towards your eyes.
So a green flash is more likely to be observers when the weather is misty enough for most violet and blue light to be scattered but not enough lead to the scattering of green light as well leading to a normal yellow/ red looking sun only. Moreover the presence of mirages aides in exaggerating the effect of green flashes causing them to be apparent. Another factor that helps us to perceive green flashes that our cones can get tired from looking at a certain colour for to long, as a consequence when the red light disappears you are prone to perceive the surroundings in a tint of blue and green, enhancing the clarity of a green flash
2).Blood Moons
Blood moons are total lunar eclipse are also optical phenomenons that happen when the Sun, Earth and the Moon are all aligned together. It mainly happens due to refraction and scattering where all the light reaching the moon hits the Earth first so some are absorbed some are scattered away and some passes with some refraction, And since high wavelength Electromagnetic waves are less likely to refract and scatter the pass through the atmosphere into the moon. |
This astronomical occurrence only happens scarcely, as it not only requires a full moon, but it also needs to be in umbral shadow of the earth. This makes that occurrence rare as the moon orbit around the earth is tilted , leading to it completing some orbits (each orbit is about 29.5 days) without being directly behind the earth .
Due to the Moon's orbit being tilted other types of lunar eclipses might appear. For example when the moon is not directly behind the Earth, |
The other type is partial lunar eclipse where the moon passes through the umbral shadow without being utterly aligned with the earth, as a consequence a part of the moon only gets covered by the earth rendering it black in comparison to the rest of the moon.
A lunar eclipse brightness maybe effected through scattering. Since the presence a lot of dust such as when a volcano erupts, will make more red light |
For those who do not know umbra penumbra and antumbra are three different parts of the shadow. An umbra occurs when a light source is cast-ed upon a opaque body without any diffraction the shadow would be darkest part of a shadow. A penumbra is when the shadow is lighter, in other words it is the lighter shadow surrounding the umbra.
Last but not least the antumbra only occurs when a light source is bigger than the object. it is the lighter shadow present after the umbra, but not around it, just beyond it.
3). references
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/antumbra-shadow.html
4).Sources
All sources of images I did not take myself. They are in the order of me putting them.
https://twitter.com/SDjimgrant more specifically
https://twitter.com/mikebettes/status/1030580026985590791/photo/1
https://dolores.com.mk/mk/terapii/laser-svetlosna-terapija/light2/
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/mch/sct.rxml
https://www.online-sciences.com/the-waves/the-reasons-for-the-occurrence-of-mirage-phenomenon/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/xlhmq/the_blood_moon_rises_in_real_life/
https://www.quora.com/How-are-lunar-eclipses-formed
https://mdahlem.net/astro/pop/astphot/20110616.php
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/partial-lunar-eclipse.html
This is the work of a student liable to make mistakes, so if one is noticed please tell me in the comments from me to look at it and correct it. Moreover if you are a fellow student how wants came here to gather information Do not just copy and paste from your references try to write it yourself as it would increase your understanding and may result in you searching for more information to be able to clarify what you mean in your research. So you would understand what you wrote by heart.
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