Thursday, September 22, 2005

The Green Flash


I got this link from APOD on the phenomenon of the Green Flash. I've only ever seen it once, in Ptown at Sunset. Cape Cod is the only place on the East coast of the US where you can watch the sun set over water. Last fall during Labor Day, we took a sun set cruise and I got to see it. Simply amazing.

Photo credit: Andrew Young

3 comments:

MAH said...

I had meant the east coast from Maine to Florida (not counting the keys or past the tip), but your point is a good one.

Brian Dunbar said...

Heh. The green flash phenomena was a topic of discussion between my dad and on vacation to the Oregon coast. Real? Sailor's tale?

Hotel on the Hill, view of the ocean, conditions right .. sat still and poof there it was. Amazing memory.

MAH said...

I waited almost 30 years to see it after reading about it in an Astronomy book when I was 10 or 11.

It was worth the wait.