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Rainbows around the sun corona2/22/2023 ![]() How to Use Foreground for Better Star Photos.How to Include People in Starscape Photographs.10 Ways to Improve Your Night Sky Photography.How to Take Photos of the Night Sky Through a Telescope.10 Incredible Landscape Photography Locations Near Moab, Utah.Landscape Photography Guide to White Sands National Park, USA.11 Editing Tips to Greatly Improve Your Landscape Photos.Black and White Landscape Photography Guide.Best Places for Autumn Landscape Photography in the Peak District.7 Top Tips for Puffin Photography This Summer.How to Plan a Photography Trip to Namibia.How to Photograph Reptiles and Amphibians in the USA. ![]() How to Photograph a Wildlife Rehab Centre in Action.The Science of the Glory, Scientific American, Jan.Glories – Explanation and image gallery.Video of a glory seen from an airplane archived at on.Nave, R (n.d.), Glories, retrieved 4 September 2007.Mayes, Lawrence (1 September 2003), Glories – an Atmospheric Phenomenon, archived from the original on 16 August 2007, retrieved 4 September 2007.United Kingdom: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. ^ James Burke (Actor), Mick Jackson (Director) (1978).(January 2012), "Does the glory have a simple explanation? Opt. ^ Laven, Philip (15 July 2008), How are glories formed, retrieved 13 December 2008.Nussenzveig (1977), The Theory of the Rainbow (PDF) ^ Poincare's Light (PDF), Seminaire Poincare XVI, 2012.^ The Theory of the Rainbow (PDF), 1977.Two glories appear on the Great Seal of the United States: A glory breaking through clouds surrounding a cluster of 13 stars on the obverse, and a glory surrounding the Eye of Providence surmounting an unfinished pyramid on the reverse. Stylized glories appear occasionally in Western heraldry. The colourful halo always surrounds the observer's own shadow, and thus was often taken to show the observer's personal enlightenment (associated with Buddha or divinity). Records of the phenomenon at Mount Emei date back to A.D. It is often observed on cloud-shrouded high mountains, such as Huangshan and Mount Emei. In China, the phenomenon is called Buddha's light (or halo). His work led directly to the cloud chamber, a device for detecting ionizing radiation for which he and Arthur Compton received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927. Inspired by the impressive sight, he decided to build a device for creating clouds in the laboratory, so that he could make a synthetic, small-scale glory. Wilson saw a glory while working as a temporary observer at the Ben Nevis weather station. ![]() A theory by Brazilian physicist Herch Moysés Nussenzveig suggests that the light energy beamed back by a glory originates mostly from classical wave tunneling (synonymous in the paper to the evanescent wave coupling), which is an interaction between an evanescent light wave traveling along the surface of the drop and the waves inside the drop. He speculated that the brightness of the coloured rings of the glory are caused by two-ray interference between "short" and "long" path surface waves-which are generated by light rays entering the droplets at diametrically opposite points (both rays suffer one internal reflection). In 1947, the Dutch astronomer Hendrik van de Hulst suggested that surface waves are involved. Most 20th century work on the phenomenon of rainbows and glories has focused on determining the correct intensity of light at each point in the phenomenon, which does require quantum theories. This is sometimes called The Glory of the Pilot. In the latter case, if the plane is flying sufficiently low for its shadow to be visible on the clouds, the glory always surrounds it. Hence, the glory is commonly observed from a high viewpoint such as a mountain, tall building or from an aircraft. In order to see a glory, therefore, the clouds or fog causing it must be located below the observer, in a straight line with the Sun/Moon and the observer's eye. ![]() Since this point is by definition diametrically opposed to the sun's (or moon's) position in the sky, it always lies below the observer's horizon when the sun (or moon) is up. Like a rainbow, a glory is centred on the antisolar (or, in case of the moon, antilunar) point, which coincides with the shadow of the observer's head. In the right conditions, a glory and a rainbow can occur simultaneously. The angular size of the inner and brightest ring is much smaller than that of a rainbow, about 5° to 20°, depending on the size of the droplets. Depending on circumstances (such as the uniformity of droplet size in the clouds), one or more of the glory's rings can be visible. ![]()
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