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by squirreltape
Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:53 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Recent Submissions: 2010 August 25-27
Replies: 17
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Re: Recent Submissions: 2010 August 25-27

My guess on the lighter band in the water would be bioluminescence. When I visited Tobago we regularly saw faint glows coming from the low swells about as far of shore as in the picture. They were parallel to the shore line and kept behind the small waves half as near to the sand. In the timelapse a...
by squirreltape
Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:40 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Unusual Red Glow Over Minnesota (2009 Feb 17)
Replies: 201
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Re: Unusual Red Glow Over Minnesota (2009 February 17)

Well this is one of the nicest sunset-on-the-clouds pictures I have seen in ages and a new perspective as it's from an aircraft. There was clearly a lot of this 'glowing cloud' around when the photographer took this snap as a) unless he was sitting with the camera pointing out the window at just the...