The Green Flash at Sunset

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Jun 1890

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Nature, Volume 42, Issue 1075, pp. 127 (1890).

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YOUR correspondents (vol. xli. pp. 495, 538) seem to imply that this phenomenon is only seen at sea, but I observed it on May 17 while walking from east to west, near Worms Heath (Warlingham, Surrey). It had been an exceptionally fine day, since the morning, and about 8 p. m. there was not a cloud in the sky, except to westward, where strips of cloud were rapidly forming, and covering up the glow of sunset; the sun had sunk behind a hill, when, suddenly, my companion and I both saw a flash of green light against the thickest cloud; it lasted 1 or 2 seconds, just long enough for there to be no doubt about it. We compared it to the glare thrown by ``green fire,'' extending over an area whose diameter appeared about four times that of the moon.

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