(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0310/iridescent_esser_big.jpg)
Oh my word!! It's like a painting!!
...a rider from an endless steppe.
...living his life on his horse.
..green-brown infinity and blue sky that can be set on fire.
OH These are so beautiful V!!! I was going to pick my favorites in reply but.. Love em all!
I ended up taking a ride to Canada last night via railway with my husband, I did bring my camera and hopefully caught an incredible sunset to add here to your skies. With the moon increasing, skies clear.. it was a stunning view all night.
Good morning!!
Those are really gorgeous. Dawn is my favorite time, for all the promise it holds. The illusions are often burned off by the heat of the sun and its own illusions. My favorite one is of the moon and venus next to each other.
Namaste'
Todd
I know, D! :o
And boy, if I could ever render that photo into a painting, I could die happy!
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0609/ColdMorningSun_hoida_c65.jpg)
...a rider from an endless steppe.
...living his life on his horse.
..green-brown infinity and blue sky that can be set on fire.
(http://wallpapers.interfree.it/lightning/800/lightning_12.800.jpg)
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0704/aurora1_wikipedia.jpg)
@Zam ... I'll bet where you are you get a good view of the night-sky!
I hadn't heard it called the persian moon ... but it seems to me there's a flag which has these images. Maybe that's why?
@Zam ... I'll bet where you are you get a good view of the night-sky!
(http://photos-839.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v292/167/84/696150839/n696150839_954158_4877.jpg)
Thunder Bay last night...
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/skydelights_heden.jpg)
Taken over Sweden
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080415.html
We get to see them all the time. I remember them being particularly spectacular in Saskatchewan, though.
Don't know where that was taken, but there was a full solar eclipse in Brisbane.
A dark Sun hung over Queensland, Australia on Wednesday morning during a much anticipated total solar eclipse. Storm clouds threatened to spoil the view along the northern coast, but minutes before totality the clouds parted. Streaming past the Moon's edge, the last direct rays of sunlight produced a gorgeous diamond ring effect in this scene from Ellis Beach between Cairns and Port Douglas. Winking out in a moment, the diamond didn't last forever though. The area was plunged into darkness for nearly 2 minutes as the Moon's shadow swept off shore toward Australia's Great Barrier Reef and out into the southern Pacific. Ranging from 1/4000 to 1/15 seconds long, five separate exposures were blended in the image to create a presentation similar to the breathtaking visual experience of the eclipse.
Have you ever seen a little rainbow off to the side of the Sun? Rare but rewarding to see, such spectacles are known as sundogs, mock suns or parhelia. Sundogs are just sunlight refracting through hexagonal falling ice crystals in the Earth's atmosphere. When thin ice crystals flitter down nearly horizontally, they best refract sunlight sideways and create sundogs. Alternatively, randomly oriented ice crystals may create a complete circular sun halo. Sundogs occur 22 degrees to each side of a setting or rising Sun, although sometimes nearby clouds can block one or both. The above image was taken through a polarizing filter during October 2012 in Mérida, Spain.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130527.html
yeyeye aurora! :)
If that is real it is the most amazing picture i ever saw taken in my entire life