I was out filling the bird feeder and noticed it. The color was on the extreme dark side of the gradient with nothing else mixed in......I've never seen the like in the Shenandoah Valley before.
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Usually a sky color I only see at higher altitudes.I was out filling the bird feeder and noticed it. The color was on the extreme dark side of the gradient with nothing else mixed in......I've never seen the like in the Shenandoah Valley before.
LOL....The sky is falling!Usually a sky color I only see at higher altitudes.
I was out filling the bird feeder and noticed it. The color was on the extreme dark side of the gradient with nothing else mixed in......I've never seen the like in the Shenandoah Valley before.
It was a bit of thin cloud at sundown.Might be explained by the time of year, the fact that the Sun is still near the winter solstice (most southerly position) along the plane of the ecliptic combined with unusually dry air. The former increases blue scatter in the sky by moving most of it farther from the Sun, while the latter reduces light scattering further.
It was a bit of thin cloud at sundown.
Still does not explain the solid blue.....you would think that there would have been at least some difference off to the west.Conversely, you will often see your reddest sunsets near the Spring Equinox for all of the same reasons (Sun's positioning).
Here is a particularly red sunset I took years ago around that time.
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Still does not explain the solid blue.....you would think that there would have been at least some difference off to the west.
I saw it only 12 seconds after you took that photo:I was out filling the bird feeder and noticed it. The color was on the extreme dark side of the gradient with nothing else mixed in......I've never seen the like in the Shenandoah Valley before.
I'm not saying it's "unknown"....It could have happened 1000 times before but I was not out to observe it. Just odd that I've never seen it before is all.No, I think it does. I'm actually pretty versed in topics of light, color and astronomy. What you saw is not an unknown observation. Now, if you REALLY want to see something cool, try looking at the sunlight at night glinting off the leftover dust in the solar system reflected towards the earth!
I was out filling the bird feeder and noticed it. The color was on the extreme dark side of the gradient with nothing else mixed in......I've never seen the like in the Shenandoah Valley before.
My Precious Bodily Fluids are just fine.
Conversely, you will often see your reddest sunsets near the Spring Equinox for all of the same reasons (Sun's positioning).
Here is a particularly red sunset I took years ago around that time.
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I'm not saying it's "unknown"....It could have happened 1000 times before but I was not out to observe it. Just odd that I've never seen it before is all.