Clouds and anticrepuscular rays over the Ionian Sea

EPOD ( Earth-Science Picture Of Day ) #3 - February 15, 2022

 

DESCRIPTION:

When the light of the sun, at sunset, passes through irregular obstacles like clouds or the profile of a mountain, beams of light are created that seem to converge towards the sun: they are the “ crepuscular rays”.

Crepuscular rays widen and lose contrast as they move away from the sun, but if we look in the opposite direction sometimes they become visible again as weak beams of light converging towards the antisolar point, which is the point in the sky directly opposite the sun. They are the “anticrepuscular rays”.

Both “crepuscular” and “anticrepuscular” rays are parallel but they appear to converge for a perspective effect.

 

 

IMAGE DATA

Date/time: 2021-11-26 (yyyy-mm-dd)h:16:25 UTC

location: Acireale

coordinate:37.604N 15.172 E

 

TECHNICAL DATA

camera: Nikon D810a

camera lens:Nikon 24-120mm f/4G

focal lenght:34mm

aperture: f/8

ISO: 200

exposition time: 1/125”

software: Photoshop, Capture NX-D

 

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