Althouse: Thick fog made the 3-dimensionality of the sun photographable this morning... or no, it was just an illusion...

५ जानेवारी, २०२१

Thick fog made the 3-dimensionality of the sun photographable this morning... or no, it was just an illusion...

... wasn't it?

५३ टिप्पण्या:

Qwinn म्हणाले...: Missing tag "Nipples".; ५/१/२१, ९:०१ AM
wendybar म्हणाले...: Really pretty!!; ५/१/२१, ९:०१ AM
DavidUW म्हणाले...: No 'Rona news on the front page of the WSJ.
No 'Rona news on the front page of SFGate.

'Rona is over, but everything is still shut down.

Why?
You know why, comrade.; ५/१/२१, ९:०२ AM
narciso म्हणाले...: Surprise

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html?__twitter_impression=true&s=04; ५/१/२१, ९:०३ AM
Wince म्हणाले...: God bending over too far, piercing the clouds, about get her (its/their?) tit caught in the wringer of Madison politics?

Well, that's what it looks like to me.; ५/१/२१, ९:०८ AM
Howard म्हणाले...: Everything in the Universe is an illusion. It only exists inside our individual minds.; ५/१/२१, ९:०९ AM
Paddy O म्हणाले...: Your first picture looks like a Caspar David Friedrich painting.; ५/१/२१, ९:१४ AM
Howard म्हणाले...: The asymmetry of the warm glow around the sun makes it look like it's falling; ५/१/२१, ९:२१ AM
stevew म्हणाले...: An illusion resembling and egg yolk in a fry pan.

I'm occasionally surprised at the image my camera captures when looking at it uploaded version on a larger screen. Very different than what I saw when taking it.; ५/१/२१, ९:२३ AM
wildswan म्हणाले...: I can't believe the sun is shadowed - the angle of its body partly cutting off light from the sun, creating shadows, and showing its 3-dimensionality. More likely, the focus laser from your camera is bouncing off the sun, creating a highlight.; ५/१/२१, ९:३५ AM
DanTheMan म्हणाले...: >>More likely, the focus laser from your camera is bouncing off the sun, creating a highlight.

There is a guy on YouTube proving the earth is flat using a small laser "shining" on the moon.
Shining a laser on the sun would be a tiny bit more difficult. :); ५/१/२१, ९:४८ AM
narciso म्हणाले...: https://mobile.twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1346453904054243329; ५/१/२१, ९:५० AM
Aric म्हणाले...: Illusion, probably a sensor anomaly / failure. The sun is the same brightness all over - a sphere will only be brighter on one side if it's being illuminated by something else. Unless there's a bigger, brighter star in our solar system lighting up the Sun, it will never look like this.; ५/१/२१, ९:५६ AM
Joe Smith म्हणाले...: I had a very cool pink sky in the back yard yesterday morning, and a huge double rainbow in the front yard to round things out...; ५/१/२१, ९:५९ AM
wildswan म्हणाले...: "Dan the Man said:
There is a guy on YouTube proving the earth is flat using a small laser "shining" on the moon.
Shining a laser on the sun would be a tiny bit more difficult. :)"

A critic of my science? Here is verified proof by an authority accepted on this blog, a Nobel Laureate, that these things happen:
"The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into the sun"

But, Dan, here's song for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBQxG0Z72qM; ५/१/२१, १०:२० AM
PM म्हणाले...: During the Cali fires we had several mornings of a full, watchable, red-disk sun.
Fog is the preferred enabler.; ५/१/२१, १०:३२ AM
Joe Smith म्हणाले...: "During the Cali fires we had several mornings of a full, watchable, red-disk sun."

Where is this 'Cali' of which you speak?; ५/१/२१, १०:३९ AM
PM म्हणाले...: Not your coke source. That place left of Nev.; ५/१/२१, १०:४२ AM
stevew म्हणाले...: Arguing rather than proving, no?; ५/१/२१, १०:५६ AM
wild chicken म्हणाले...: Beautiful.

What do you call it when the fog magnifies an image and makes it look closer? Couldn't find if anywhere.

I love fog.; ५/१/२१, १०:५९ AM
MadisonMan म्हणाले...: I'm just happy the fog thinned. Hello Sun, and welcome back. The litany of posts praising hoarfrost and rime the past two cloudy days has worn on me.; ५/१/२१, ११:१२ AM
Joe Smith म्हणाले...: "Not your coke source. That place left of Nev."

You must be either a surfer dude, a transplant, or a kid.

I've never heard a native Californian over the age of 30 say 'Cali.'

Yes, I'm being a pain in the ass...that word just grates on my ears.; ५/१/२१, ११:१४ AM
Howard म्हणाले...: Wild Chick: don't know if this is what you are talking about but it looks pretty cool

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre

A Brocken spectre (German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre, is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast upon clouds opposite the Sun's direction. The figure's head is often surrounded by the halo-like rings of coloured light forming a glory, which appears opposite the Sun's direction when uniformly-sized water droplets in clouds refract and backscatter sunlight.

A Brocken spectre within a glory's rings
The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, even when seen from an aeroplane, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region.; ५/१/२१, ११:२३ AM
PM म्हणाले...: Noted, yo.; ५/१/२१, ११:२४ AM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...: Momma always told me not to look into the eyes of the Sun--
But Momma-- that's where the fun is!

Pic #2 looks like a Golden drop of Retsyn® !

What the heck is Retsyn? According to Cadbury Adams (the maker of Certs), Retsyn is “a combination of partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, copper gluconate and flavoring.”; ५/१/२१, ११:२५ AM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...: ...and now you got us thinking about Roe v. Wade; ५/१/२१, ११:३० AM
wild chicken म्हणाले...: Howard, not quite. One day I was looking across a field by our house and a shed appeared to have moved 50 feet forward in the fog and sunlight.

Thought I saw the name of the effect as a kid in my Golden Book of Geology.🙂; ५/१/२१, ११:४१ AM
Kay म्हणाले...: I know it’s possible to see planets in the sky without a telescope, but I’ve never been able to make them out myself. Maybe I’m not sure what to look for. I’ve heard that some of them simply look like stars to the naked eye.; ५/१/२१, १२:०८ PM
Fernandinande म्हणाले...: That's a cool effect and since the camera is a iPhone XS, I bet the source of the effect is Apple’s "Smart HDR" technology since it's a very HDR image. Scroll down about 1/3 of the page.; ५/१/२१, १२:११ PM
Fernandinande म्हणाले...: Scroll down about 1/3 of the page.

To the street/motel image.; ५/१/२१, १२:१२ PM
Narr म्हणाले...: Kay! I don't know where you live--you may be in a brightly lit area which makes things hard to distinguish at night--but go the website

Earthsky.org/tonight

and you will find what to look for, with visuals.

There may be better sites, but this one is at my level.

Mars is very bright and pinkish now throughout the night, and may be the only thing you CAN see clearly.

Narr
Have fun!; ५/१/२१, १२:१५ PM
Paddy O म्हणाले...: "I've never heard a native Californian over the age of 30 say 'Cali.'

Yes, I'm being a pain in the ass...that word just grates on my ears."

It doesn't grate on my ears, but it is an almost sure sign that someone is not from here. Though, it's very commonly used outside of California, so I never get the sense anyone thinks there's anything unusual about it for Californians.; ५/१/२१, १२:२१ PM
Kay म्हणाले...: Narr said...
Kay! I don't know where you live--you may be in a brightly lit area which makes things hard to distinguish at night--but go the website

Earthsky.org/tonight

and you will find what to look for, with visuals.

There may be better sites, but this one is at my level.

Mars is very bright and pinkish now throughout the night, and may be the only thing you CAN see clearly.

Narr
Have fun!
1/5/21, 12:15 PM

Awesome, thank you for sharing this link!

You’re also probably right that it could be about my location. I can remember camping during a meteor shower about 20 years ago, and that was the clearest I’ve ever seen the night sky.; ५/१/२१, १२:४४ PM
PM म्हणाले...: Joe/Paddy:
Born in LA. Live in NorCal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdizL4on-Rc&list=RDFdizL4on-Rc; ५/१/२१, १:०२ PM
Lurker21 म्हणाले...: Great picture.

Aurora, aureola or areola?

You make the call.; ५/१/२१, १:२२ PM
Joe Smith म्हणाले...: "It doesn't grate on my ears, but it is an almost sure sign that someone is not from here. Though, it's very commonly used outside of California, so I never get the sense anyone thinks there's anything unusual about it for Californians."

It's as bad as 'Frisco' or 'San Fran.'

I swear I'm the only native Californian within 100 square miles.

Now get off my lawn!

: ); ५/१/२१, २:२२ PM
BUMBLE BEE म्हणाले...: "What do you call it when the fog magnifies an image and makes it look closer?"
Primo Shit!; ५/१/२१, २:२६ PM
mtrobertslaw म्हणाले...: Great photo!! By the way, how does one go about purchasing one your photos?; ५/१/२१, २:५३ PM
Fernandinande म्हणाले...: For some reason, the NUMBNUT GIRLIE JESUITS of the EFFING North American SCRABBLE® Players Association expurgated many interesting and informational words from their official COMSYMP dictionaries.; ५/१/२१, ३:०४ PM
320Busdriver म्हणाले...: Hey if you thought you missed how an election was stolen back in Nov. you probably have a good chance to see a replay tonight. Stay up late and when you can't stay awake go to bed and when you wake up, voila.; ५/१/२१, ३:१७ PM
320Busdriver म्हणाले...: I miss iridium flares. But you can get ultra accurate predictions for any visible
satellite passes in your locale at heavens-above.com. Starlink seems to be the in thing nowadays.; ५/१/२१, ३:२३ PM
narciso म्हणाले...: hmm

https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2021/01/dyers-latest-update-on-key-supporting.html; ५/१/२१, ३:२५ PM
narciso म्हणाले...: pattern and practice,

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-elite-tom-friedman; ५/१/२१, ३:२६ PM
Paddy O म्हणाले...: "Born in LA. Live in NorCal."

Ha! Funny you should say that. I erased the part of my comment that said natives tend to say SoCal or NorCal not Cali. Being around a lot of non-natives though is probably catchy.

I lived in Sacramento for five years and got used to saying I5, not the right way of saying it "the 5". Now I have to learn how to speak properly again after moving back south.; ५/१/२१, ७:२० PM
I'm Not Sure म्हणाले...: Born in California (SoCal, to be more specific) and lived there for 35 years. Never heard anyone call it "Cali". Moved to ID, then to AZ and finally back to ID. No "Cali" here in Idaho, but lots of it in Phoenix.

A few data points.; ५/१/२१, ८:१८ PM
PM म्हणाले...: "Now I have to learn how to speak properly again after moving back south."
If you mean LA, some old school:
The 405 is the San Diego Fwy
The 101 is the Hollywood Fwy
The 5 is the Golden State Fwy
The 710 is the Long Beach Fwy
The 110 is the Harbor Fwy / north of downtown - it's the Pasadena Fwy
The 10 is the Santa Monica Fwy / east of downtown - the San Bernadino Fwy
which takes you to San Berdoo and Riverside or as Jim Rome calls it: Rivertucky.; ५/१/२१, ८:३५ PM
I'm Not Sure म्हणाले...: "The 5 is the Golden State Fwy"

Not if you're in Orange County. And not "The OC".; ५/१/२१, ८:३७ PM
PM म्हणाले...: Of course, then it's the Santa Ana - on its way to Disneyland.; ५/१/२१, ९:१४ PM
Joe Smith म्हणाले...: Don't get me started on the 'The' before the freeway name. That is definitely an LA thing because nobody ever says that up north.

And I never say the proper names (Bayshore, Junipero Serra, and Nimitz are the three main ones) because transplants and younger natives have no idea.

There are a LOT more freeways in LA to remember.

Also, the street names in LA are pretty fantastic.; ५/१/२१, १०:०८ PM
I'm Not Sure म्हणाले...: This may be getting a bit off into the weeds, but the 91 is either the Riverside Fwy if you're going to/coming back from Big Bear or the Artesia Fwy if you're going to/coming back from the Queen Mary in Long Beach.

TMI, I'm sure.; ५/१/२१, १०:२४ PM
Joe Smith म्हणाले...: And then there's the Slauson Cutoff...

https://youtu.be/twqa9AppfeE

Sound is bad but you get the idea.; ५/१/२१, १०:३५ PM
Howard म्हणाले...: Born and raised in LA lived in Santa Cruz 30-years now a big masshole. Nobody knows how to drive in the bay area except for the 17 regulars. WTF is up with the northeast driving habit of stopping on motherloving onramps? I do miss Mulholland top of the world.

Say goodnight, Dick; ५/१/२१, १०:५७ PM
PM म्हणाले...: Kay: "I know it’s possible to see planets in the sky without a telescope, but I’ve never been able to make them out myself."

If it twinkles, it's a star. If it doesn't, it's a planet.; ६/१/२१, १०:३१ AM