{"id":409,"date":"2008-06-18T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/06\/18\/in_pursuit_of_a\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:28:47","slug":"in_pursuit_of_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/06\/18\/in_pursuit_of_a\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pursuit of a Green Flicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008053001_Series01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Until a few weeks ago, I&#8217;ve never made a serious attempt to look for a green flash on the setting sun. My horizons are treed and mountainous. And when I have had access to an ocean or flat desert horizon, there have either been clouds or other things to do. <\/p>\n<p>While on a week-long cruise in the Carribbean last month, one evening offered a beautiful sunset where the distant clouds didn&#8217;t quite conceal the horizon. I took the opportunity to shoot some photos over the railing to see if several miles of thick, refracting air would throw a green sunbeam at me. It was a beautiful sight, but I didn&#8217;t see a lick of green. At least that&#8217;s what I thought. After checking the images when we got home, I noticed my final image had an interestingly tinted sliver of sunlight in it. That last little gasp of greenish light might be a visual contrast effect with the orange sky, but it does measure ever-so-slightly greenish in Photoshop. (I didn&#8217;t apply any unsharp masking to the photo&#8211;but random color noise might play into it.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008053001_Series02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008053001_Series03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I know, it&#8217;s pretty sad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is an animated gif image (470K): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008053001_Animation.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Animated Sunset.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pursuit of a Green Flicker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astro-photography","category-solar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":419,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/07\/17\/ngc_6210\/","url_meta":{"origin":409,"position":0},"title":"NGC 6210","author":"jperez1690","date":"July 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 6210","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Deep Sky&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":633,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2020\/07\/07\/comet_c2020_f3_1\/","url_meta":{"origin":409,"position":1},"title":"Comet C\/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) &#8211; 7 July 2020","author":"jperez1690","date":"July 7, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"C\/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) - 7 July 2020, 3:44AM MST \/ 1044UT Click for larger version. 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