APOD: East to West, Light and Shadow (2016 Nov 26)

[APOD Robot]

East to West, Light and Shadow

Explanation: On this November morning an old crescent Moon and morning star rise just before the Sun in a wide panoramic skyscape from Kenya's Amboseli National Park. Still below the limbs of an acacia tree and the eastern horizon, the Sun's position is easy to find though. It's marked at the left by the subtle convergence of light and shadow in the dawn sky. Known as crepuscular rays, the warm-colored rays of sunlight are outlined by shadows cast by unseen clouds near the horizon. Arcing above the profile of Mount Kilimanjaro, toward the right the rays of light and shadow converge at the western horizon. There known as anti-crepuscular rays, they indicate the point opposite the rising sun. The cloud shadows are very nearly parallel, but converge toward the distant horizons because of perspective.

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[xmetman]

Surely if these are anticrepuscular rays then that photo surely is looking at the western horizon, because anticrepuscular rays are seen on the opposite horizon to the sun, and in the morning even in Africa the sun still rises in the east?

Of course if this is the eastern horizon, then this must be a sunset rather than a sunrise, and the sun is in the west and the anticrepuscular rays are on the eastern horizon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticrepu ... ]Wikipedia

[Case]

On this November morning an old crescent Moon and morning star rise just before the Sun in a wide panoramic skyscape

Hard to see the Moon and Venus in the wide field, but they are in there.

[Chris Peterson]

Surely if these are anticrepuscular rays then that photo surely is looking at the western horizon, because anticrepuscular rays are seen on the opposite horizon to the sun, and in the morning even in Africa the sun still rises in the east?

Of course if this is the eastern horizon, then this must be a sunset rather than a sunrise, and the sun is in the west and the anticrepuscular rays are on the eastern horizon.

This isn't the western horizon. This isn't the eastern horizon. This is the entire horizon- nearly a 360° panorama. The eastern dawn sky and its crepuscular rays are at the left. Kilimanjaro is left of center and nearly due south. Anti-crepuscular rays converge on the antisolar point on the western horizon right of center.

[saturno2]

Interesting image

[ta152h0]

looks flocculent in the east

[De58te]

Chris, I think it is more like an 180° panorama since it is east to south to west. Or 200° since there is a little extra at west point.

[Chris Peterson]

Chris, I think it is more like an 180° panorama since it is east to south to west. Or 200° since there is a little extra at west point.

On closer examination, I think it is exactly 360°, given that the distance between the solar and antisolar point is half the width of the entire frame, and the fact that the imagery on the left edge stitches into the imagery on the right edge.

[rwlott]

Would someone please correct the "there, their, they're" grammatical error in the next to last sentence in the description for this APOD.

[rstevenson]

Would someone please correct the "there, their, they're" grammatical error in the next to last sentence in the description for this APOD.

Not necessarily a mistake. The sentence that begins...

There known as anti-crepuscular rays, ... .

... could be interpreted as...

[Those things, when they are over there, are] known as anti-crepuscular rays, ... .

So I'd say the sentence contains correct, if difficult to parse, English usage.

Rob

[Chris Peterson]

So I'd say the sentence contains correct, if difficult to parse, English usage.

I didn't find it difficult to parse given the symmetry of the definitions...

...in the dawn sky. Known as crepuscular rays,... converge at the western horizon. There known as anti-crepuscular rays...

I suppose it might be a little clearer to say "Known there", but still, I read it properly the first time.

[neufer]

Would someone please correct the "there, their, they're" grammatical error in the next to last sentence in the description for this APOD.

Not necessarily a mistake.

There known as anti-crepuscular rays, ... .

... could be interpreted as...

[Those things, when they are over there, are] known as anti-crepuscular rays, ... .

• I, myself, am notorious over here for calling them anti-crepulescent rays (from time to time).

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