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Post by stardustpilgrim on May 25, 2019 15:24:01 GMT -5
Just saw a picture by zindarud on the picture thread. This reminded me of two different experiences. Once I came out of a classroom at UNCC in the afternoon, about sunset, and everything was golden. I don't know how to say it any other way. Everything you looked at had a golden tent to it, the sky, the air even, the buildings. I just stood there and marveled. Another time, driving across the country in 1980 I was camping at a campgrounds about mid-country. It was again about sunset, and everything had a purplish tent. Very like as above, but everything purple, the sky, the trees.
Just curious, anybody else encounter a similar phenomenon?
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Post by zin on May 25, 2019 19:43:10 GMT -5
Just saw a picture by zindarud on the picture thread. This reminded me of two different experiences. Once I came out of a classroom at UNCC in the afternoon, about sunset, and everything was golden. I don't know how to say it any other way. Everything you looked at had a golden tent to it, the sky, the air even, the buildings. I just stood there and marveled. Another time, driving across the country in 1980 I was camping at a campgrounds about mid-country. It was again about sunset, and everything had a purplish tent. Very like as above, but everything purple, the sky, the trees. Just curious, anybody else encounter a similar phenomenon? Sunsets are usually spectacular here at the seaside but one day in October it was really like how you describe above. (I've just added a vague pic on the pics thread). That day everyone in the city took pics of it : ) Read a bit about 'atmospheric optics' and it says it's about clouds. edit: Well, it says the reason is "thick atmosphere", not 'clouds' : ) my mind must've translated it like that. |
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Post by laughter on May 25, 2019 20:21:41 GMT -5
Just saw a picture by zindarud on the picture thread. This reminded me of two different experiences. Once I came out of a classroom at UNCC in the afternoon, about sunset, and everything was golden. I don't know how to say it any other way. Everything you looked at had a golden tent to it, the sky, the air even, the buildings. I just stood there and marveled. Another time, driving across the country in 1980 I was camping at a campgrounds about mid-country. It was again about sunset, and everything had a purplish tent. Very like as above, but everything purple, the sky, the trees. Just curious, anybody else encounter a similar phenomenon? Sunlight is ever so subtle.  While I can recall lots of memorable instances of how unique natural lighting left an impression, the ones that are most easily relatable and objectively repeatable have to do with the seasons, and are probably related to certain degrees of northern latitude. In the winter, a few hours before dusk, if there's fresh snow on the ground, it's cold, and very dry, and calm (no wind), the entire world can take on a blueish hue. In the summer - in particular, within a few days of the solstice either way - dusk can stretch out for hours, and on sunny days, in the last few of those hours leading up to sunset, is this gentle yellow light like the golden hue you describe. It sort of bathes and paints everything the same golden, even in those areas of higher shadow contrast. |
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Post by zendancer on May 26, 2019 8:03:28 GMT -5
I've seen the same sort of thing on several occasions. All of them were memorable, and two or three of them were simply spectacular. When Carol and I visit Asheville, NC, we often go have a glass of wine at the skybar on top of the Flatiron Building late in the afternoon. The sun sets behind mountains about 15 miles to the west, and if the cloud density and formation is just right, the sun can cause the entire sky to become backlit to such a degree that the clouds become irridescent and bathe everything with an unusually bright yellow-gold light. On one particular afternoon about five years ago, the iridescence made the sky look like it had become lighted from within--almost like the clouds were on fire. The effect was so astonishing that people on the street seven stories below us stopped in their tracks and gawked. Our waiter told us that that particular effect was extremely rare, and he had only seen it three or four times in the two years he had worked there. It lasted almost twenty minutes and all of us on the skybar were awed by it. From that time forward I checked out the cloud formations from the other side of town before deciding whether to go to the skybar. No clouds, no visual effects. The same thing happens west of Nashville as the sun drops below hills about 6 miles beyond a deck on a home we built on a high ridge. Clouds have to be present for all of the unusual phenomena. Some evenings when the clouds are heavy and dark, it looks like nothing will happen, but sometimes twenty minutes after the sun has dropped below the hills, the area above and below the clouds emits bands of light that appear purple or blue.
Our own home faces hills that are ESE about a mile away, and occasionally the same sort of thing causes a red glow in the morning as the sun comes up behind a thin layer of clouds. Every time I see it I think of the old sailor's adage, "Red sky in morning, sailors take warning."
I've only seen the golden glow one time at midday while hiking in a valley, and I have no idea what caused it at that time of day.
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Post by arisha on May 27, 2019 23:49:52 GMT -5
The word "America" is associated with the yellow color, isn't it?. Ths is how the name is seen with the inner eye. And, yes, with the golden tint on It. It's due to the very beautiful color of the shining sun in America, and maybe due to the very transparent color of the air. The colors change slightly depending on the area of the Earth, did you notice that? For example, the colors in the West by themselves are not the same as in the East, it is especially true of the purple, violet, and blue. Light blue and dark blue are not lighter or darker, but the tints are different in the East, and they add something else to the colors. In the West they are more like darker blue and lighter blue, - but there are different words for those blue colors with tints there. And classification of colors is different in the East and in the West as well. The sun is giving its light under different angles, and changes the colors.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on May 28, 2019 10:02:14 GMT -5
I thought of another unusual phenomenon I've seen only one time. It was about 1983, I came out of a friend's house about 12 midnight-1:00 AM. I want to say it was cold, but thinking back I cannot make that fit a timeline...actually it could have been late October, so it could have been "cold"ish. But anyway, I looked up to a full moon, and there was a rainbow around it. Now I had and have seen on rare occasions a halo around the moon at night, but it is always a kind of cloud with no color. This was spectacular stop you in your tracks... (I'm sure it's in a journal somewhere...will probably run across it some day in my old age...date it...)...
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