The green flash.

[DownWest]

When I was building my house the neighbour's wife was in her kitchen one morning & flashed my men on the scaffold. I missed it, but they seemed quite pleased. Had nothing to do with the sun going down. There were 2 of them & I doubt they were green. The blokes did not seem to mind.

Perv is curious.. Top flash, or Full Monty?


Oh, asking for a friend!

 

[DownWest]

Dont forget one leg in the air!

Never been close to that sorta thing, so bit short of the finer details.....
But, chatting to the crew of our company yacht, rather late at night.. She was a 'Southern Girl' from the US. Quite happily told me her father was a Grand Wizard in the KKK. Jeepers! Maybe did the yacht stuff to stay away?
And, back in the late 60s, spent some time with delightful girl, her father was well up in the Masons. We didn't find much time to talk about that.

 

[Daydream believer]

Perv is curious.. Top flash, or Full Monty?


Oh, asking for a friend!

Enough has been revealed. Just use your imagination

 

[Beelzebub]

No need to sail across the Atlantic to see the Green Flash. My wife and I have seen it on Ile d'Arz in the Golfe de Morbihan.

 

[AndrewB]

While we were blue-water cruising in the tropics, every evening SWMBO and I would pour out the G&T's at sunset, and settle down to watch "The Green Flash Show". But we never once saw it together, not in perhaps 200 or so 'perfect' sunsets!

Then, one day when we were sailing towards NZ in quite rough conditions, so that only I was on deck, finally I saw it. The one and only time.

I'm still not convinced though that it is a real effect rather than an illusion, and have doubts about supposed photographs. The flash I saw looked different from most of them.

 

[Blueboatman]

While we were blue-water cruising in the tropics, every evening SWMBO and I would pour out the G&T's at sunset, and settle down to watch "The Green Flash Show". But we never once saw it together, not in perhaps 200 or so 'perfect' sunsets!

Then, one day when we were sailing towards NZ in quite rough conditions, so that only I was on deck, finally I saw it. The one and only time.

I'm still not convinced though that it is a real effect rather than an illusion, and have doubts about supposed photographs. The flash I saw looked different from most of them.

There’s an 80s French lightweight movie called -funnily enough - The Green Ray .
They filmed in the Canaries for the eponymous money shot

 

[Goldie]

I'm still not convinced though that it is a real effect rather than an illusion, and have doubts about supposed photographs.

YOU may have doubts about ‘supposed photographs’ but I can assure you that the photo in #12 is very real and was witnessed by other watchers with the naked eye.

 

[Stingo]

YOU may have doubts about ‘supposed photographs’ but I can assure you that the photo in #12 is very real and was witnessed by other watchers with the naked eye.

My photo is so similar to your photo that cynics might accuse one of us of nicking the other's photo!

 

[Stingo]

YOU may have doubts about ‘supposed photographs’ but I can assure you that the photo in #12 is very real and was witnessed by other watchers with the naked eye.

I've now searched my 'pooter for my green-flash photo and cannot find it, but I did find the photo that I took a few minutes before the flash. One would think the green-flash photo would be the next in the sequence or at least in the same folder. Nada!

 

[Rustyknight]

Saw the green flash once whilst watching the sunset sitting on the cliffs at Tintagel in Cornwall. I doubt I'll ever see it again, but sure as eggs are eggs I'll forget to take a camera....

 

[BobnLesley]

I'm still get reminded of an evening in St Annes, Martinique not long after we reached the Caribbean when I vociferously discounted green flashes only fifteen minutes before we along with a few dozen/hundred others witnessed the most clear/obvious one we ever saw.
Conversely, I've watched several sunsets at that headland/square where everyone gathers in Key West and irrespective of the weather conditions, there is invariably someone who shouts out that they saw it and within a minute or so, several hundred others realise they saw it too.

 

[Frank Holden]

Hands up anyone who has seen the moon give a green flash?

You would think they would be more common what with the moon being made of cheese - green cheese.

They probably are as common as sun ones but people just don't look for them.

 

[AndrewB]

YOU may have doubts about ‘supposed photographs’ but I can assure you that the photo in #12 is very real and was witnessed by other watchers with the naked eye.

That's a nice photo.

It shows a greenish tinge to the sun close to the horizon , which is not that uncommon, and could well be caused by refraction through the atmosphere (which allows the setting sun to still be seen, when actually it is already below the horizon). However it is not the same as a split-second flash extending beyond the apparent perimeter of the sun itself, which some believe they have seen.

 

[johnalison]

That's a nice photo.

It shows a greenish tinge to the sun close to the horizon , which is not that uncommon, and could well be caused by refraction through the atmosphere (which allows the setting sun to still be seen, when actually it is already below the horizon). However it is not the same as a split-second flash extending beyond the apparent perimeter of the sun itself, which some believe they have seen.

If a red sun disc disappears quickly, its complementary colour green will be perceived, and I suspect that this contributes to many green-flash reports and may be the chief effect in most, though I don’t doubt that a real effect exists.

 

[mjcoon]

If a red sun disc disappears quickly, its complementary colour green will be perceived, and I suspect that this contributes to many green-flash reports and may be the chief effect in most, though I don’t doubt that a real effect exists.

But of course "complementary colour" is a physiological effect anyway, not physics.

 

[johnalison]

But of course "complementary colour" is a physiological effect anyway, not physics.

That doesn’t mean that it isn’t real. It won’t appear on photos but will colour people’s experiences, which are what we are mostly hearing.

 

[john_morris_uk]

I wouldn’t describe the we green flash we saw as a flash like a camera flash. More like a rapid fade in and out of a very distinct green light as the last bit of the sun disappeared.

 

[Alan S]

The reason it's called the green flash is not because it's bright but because it's very brief.

 

[capnsensible]

But of course "complementary colour" is a physiological effect anyway, not physics.

 

[capnsensible]