20 most incredible light phenomena

We present You a selection of the 20 most beautiful natural phenomena associated with the play of light. Indeed the phenomena of nature is indescribable — you must see it! Divide conditionally all the light metamorphoses into three subgroups. The first is Water and Ice, the second — the Rays and the Shadows, and the third Light contrasts.

Water and Ice
Allogeneically arc
This phenomenon is also known as “fire rainbow”. Is created in the sky when light refracts through ice crystals in Cirrus clouds. The phenomenon is very rare, since the ice crystals and the sun must stand exactly on the horizontal line to such a dramatic refraction. This is a particularly good example was captured in the sky above Spokane in Washington, in 2006

A couple of examples of a fiery rainbow

“Ghost Is Broken”
When the sun shines on the climber or on top of another object, a shadow is projected on the fog, creating a curiously enlarged triangular shape. This effect is accompanied by a kind of halo around the object in colored light circles that appear directly opposite the sun when sunlight is reflected by a cloud of identical water droplets. The name of this natural phenomenon was due to the fact that most often it is observed at quite affordable for climbers low German peaks of Brocken, due to frequent fog in the area




Okoloserdecna arc
In a nutshell — it's a rainbow upside down=) Such a huge colorful smile in the sky) is a miracle due to the refraction of sunlight through horizontal ice crystals in specific cloud forms. The phenomenon is concentrated at the Zenith, parallel to the horizon, the range of colors — from blue near Zenith and red towards the horizon. This phenomenon is always in the form of partial circular arcs; a full circle in such a situation is extremely rare Arc of Infantry, which was first captured on film in 2007


Hazy Arc
This strange aura was spotted from the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco- it looked like a fully white rainbow. Like rainbow, this phenomenon created by the refraction of light through water droplets in the clouds, but, unlike the rainbow — because of the small size of the droplets of the fog color as it is not enough. So it turns out rainbow is colorless, just white) Sailors often referred to them as “sea wolves” or “misty arc”



Rainbow halo
When the light as it scatters back (a mixture of reflection, refraction and diffraction) — back to its source, the water droplets in the clouds, the shadow of the object between the cloud and the source can be divided into colored stripes. Glory can be translated as the ethereal beauty is the name of this beautiful natural phenomenon) In some parts of China, this phenomenon is called the Light of Buddha — it is often accompanied by the Spectre of the Brocken. Photo beautiful colored stripes effectively surround the shadow of the plane in front of the clouds


Solar halo
Ghosting — one of the most well-known and common optical phenomena, they occur under a variety of guises. The most common phenomenon of the solar halo, caused by refraction of light by ice crystals in Cirrus clouds at high altitude, and the specific form and orientation of the crystals can create variation in the appearance of the halo. During very cold weather halos are formed by crystals close to the ground reflect the sunlight between them, sending it in several directions at once — this effect is known as “diamond dust”



Iridescent clouds
When the sun is exactly at a right angle behind the clouds — droplets of water refract the light, creating intense stretching train. Colouring, as in the rainbow caused by different wavelengths of light — different wavelengths are refracted to different degrees by changing the angle of refraction and thus the color of light in our perception. In this photo, raguenet clouds accompanied by sharply coloured rainbow

A few photos of this phenomenon



The lunar arc
The combination of low moon and dark sky often creates a lunar arc, essentially rainbows produced by the light of the moon. Appearing in the opposite the moon the end of heaven, they usually look like fully white due to the weak paint, but photography with a long exposure can capture the true color as in this photo taken in Yosemite national Park, California.

A few more photos of lunar rainbow

Prelicence round
This phenomenon occurs as a white ring surrounding the sky, always at the same height above the horizon, and the Sun. It is usually possible to grasp only fragments of the whole picture. Millions of vertically oriented ice crystals reflect the sun's rays all over the sky to make it beautiful phenomenon.

The sides of the resulting spheres often appear the so-called false Sun, as for example in this photo

Rainbow
Rainbows take many forms multiple arcs, intersecting arcs, red arcs, same arc, arc with painted edges, dark lines, the needles, and many others, but what unites them is that they are all divided into colors — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Indigo and violet. Remember from childhood "mnemonic" the location of the colors in the rainbow — Each Hunter Wishes to Know Where Sits a Pheasant?=) Rainbows appear when light refracts through water droplets in the atmosphere, often in the rain, but mist or fog can also create similar effects, and much more rare than one would imagine. At all times many different cultures have been attributed to rainbows many meanings and explanations, for example the ancient Greeks believed that the rainbow was the road to heaven, and the Irish believed that in the place where the end of the rainbow the leprechaun had buried their pot of gold=)




Rays and Shadows
Crown
A crown is a type of plasma atmosphere that surrounds a celestial body. The most famous example of this phenomenon is the corona around the Sun during a total Eclipse. It extends in space for thousands of kilometers and contains ionized iron heated almost to a million degrees Celsius. During the Eclipse, its bright light surrounds the darkened sun and it looks like around the sun appears with a crown of light

Crepuscular rays
When you have a dark area or permeable obstacles such as tree branches or clouds filter the sun — rays turn the whole column of light emanating from a single source in the sky. The phenomenon is often used in horror films, usually observed at sunrise or sunset and can even be witnessed under the ocean if the sun's rays pass through a strip of broken ice. This beautiful photo was taken in a National Park Utah

A few more examples




Fata Morgana
The interaction between cold air near ground level and warm air immediately above it may act as a refracting lens and flip upside down image of objects on the horizon at which the actual image seems to be wobbling. In this picture, delanna in Thuringia, Germany, horizon in the distance seem to have disappeared, although the blue part of the road — just the reflection of the sky above the horizon. The assertion that a Mirage is totally non-existent image, which are the only people lost in the wilderness, is incorrect, probably confused with the effects of extreme dehydration, which can cause hallucinations. Mirages are always based on real objects, while it is true that they may seem closer because of the effect of the Mirage


The pillar of light
The reflection of light by the ice crystals with an almost perfectly horizontal flat surfaces creates a strong beam. The light source can be the Sun, the Moon, or even artificial light. An interesting feature is that the pole is the color of this source. In this photo, made in Finland orange sunlight at sunset creates the same gorgeous orange post

Still a couple of “solar poles”)


Light contrasts
Polar lights

The collision of charged particles in the upper atmosphere often creates magnificent light pattern in polar regions. The color depends on the elemental content of the particles – the majority of the Aurora appears green or red because of the oxygen, but nitrogen sometimes creates a deep blue or purple appearance. In the photo — known Borealis Aurora, or Northern lights, named after the Roman goddess of dawn Aurora and the Greek God of the North wind Boreas

And the Northern lights looks like from space


Condensation (vapor) trail
A pair of tracks that follow a plane across the sky is one of the most stunning examples of human intervention in the atmosphere. They are created by the exhaust of aircraft or air vortices from the wings and only appear in cold temperatures at high altitude, condensing to ice droplets and water. In this photo, a bunch of contrails rebaptized the sky, creating a whimsical pattern of this unnatural phenomenon



The exhaust trail of the rocket
High-altitude winds distort the traces of missiles, and their small exhaust particles prevresult sunlight into vivid iridescent colours, sometimes the same wind carry for thousands of miles until they finally dissipate. In the photo — traces of the Minotaur rocket, launched from a U.S. air force base at Vandenberg, California

Polarization of the sky
Sky, like many other things around us, scatters polarised light having a particular magnetic orientation. Polarization is always perpendicular to the light path directly and if the light there is only one direction of polarization is saying that the light is linearly polarized. This photo was taken with a polarized lens filter wide angle to show how exciting looks an electromagnetic charge in the sky. Notice what color the sky is near the horizon, and some at the top

Star loop









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