Why Sunrises and Sunsets look red

in #photography7 years ago

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I love taking photos of sunsets and sunrises, especially when putting it on a setting so that the red really shows nicely. It is also pretty cool to see how as the sun sets it almost makes a faded rainbow of colors in the sky, going from red to blue, to black. It doesn't always happen, but when it does it is spectacular.

The reason the light at sunrise or sunset does this is because of the dust and air particles in the earth's atmosphere. These particles reflect light and disperse it into the atmosphere, that is why the sky is blue. The particles separate the blue light from the white light and disperses it into the atmosphere. At sun rise or sunset, the white light has to travel through a lot more particles than at noon day, so the light gets dispersed a lot more until it gets to red in the color spectrum. That is why sunsets and sunrises are red and orange and when the conditions are right the sky looks like a faded rainbow.

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Canon PowerShot A810

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Thank god it is exactly this way. It's so beautiful.

I am glad that you liked it.

Thank you for your post and explaining. I love the pictures lol.

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Enjoy is very small word, really amazing pics, 2nd pic looks like lava from upside down

I am really glad you found them amazing.

Interesting info. And I love the red-blue color combination. Maybe because they both come from the sky: red from dawn/dusk and blue from midday sky.

photograph and why this happens ....nice

Beautiful!

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Wow beatuiful! Where were these taken?

The 1st was taken from the Cutty Shark Hotel in Scottburgh, Durban, South Africa. The 2nd was taken from my cousins house in Breaunanda, Krugersdorp, South Africa.

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wow....to sit and watch that would be awesome!

It really was, I just wished it lasted longer.

I can actually explain it. There is a difference between daylight, and sunlight. Daylight is caused by noble gases (NEON for example) being affected by our electric sun, which is MUCH closer than they say :) As the electric sun moves near particles, they light up, exactly like a neon light. The color spectrum is caused by the magnetic resonance at a distance. You can prove what I just said using a neon light and a magnet. It will generate the exact spectrum of colors in a sunset.

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Looks Orange & Blue to me.......proving once again that GOD is a Denver Broncos fan! #gobroncos

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Nice colors!


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Amazingly. Fine photo

Thank you.

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