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Light & Optics - Online meteorology guide
An excellent guide to meteorological effects such as rainbows, halos and red sunsets, explained using basic physics.
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The color of the sky
A simple explanation of why the sky appears blue when the sun is high and red at sunset. A brief description is given of a home experiment to demonstrate the effect.
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Simulation of The Textbook Sunset
The red Sun sets first, leaving the green image for a second or so. Clearly Dietze was right: refraction in the Standard Atmosphere cannot produce a green flash the unaided eye can see.
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