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As the sky was forecast to be clear on the morning of Christmas day, I woke up at 5am to go back to the beach to catch an old moon rise and a bit later perhaps the green flash of the sunrise. I got neither, but the fata morgana was still there and I caught an interesting sun coming out of the ocean. First the top comes out with a gap between it and the horizon, a floating top of the sun at the same height as the floating (in the air) ship on the right. Then the body and reflection unite. It looks like the sun is pulling itself out of the ocean while some of it, like a gooey fluid, is left behind. Finally it breaks free and the morgana reflection disappears. A few pics below. A time lapse video is on vimeo, but you will have to cut and paste the link in your browser.
vimeo.com/381431960
Thank you Keelin! Yes the Aurora is something out of this world, actually literally, if you think of the origin. I plan to go chase it again.
I have a short video, not sure if I posted it to the forum before. It’s actually s slide show based on six or seven consecutive shots during the same Yelloknife trip, too few to make a time lapse. Hope you enjoy it. (As always with dark skie pictures, watch it in a dark environment.)
Thank you, Hans. I looked it up on Wikipedia, but now I see Les has a number of outstanding examples.
Happy Solstice!
I have an optical phenom a bit different. I went to the beach early morning to catch the sunrise and started taking pictures with my telephoto. There was this strange object and when I zoomed in I saw it was floating in the air:
It was quite cold and I read that these are the typical conditions for Fata Morgana. The object was not moving. It’s to big to be a helicopter. Ships usually line up in the ocean around there awaiting their turn to enter the New York harbor. There were a few other “flying” ones, tough not as colorful. Here is a copy a bit enlarged and enhanced.
Keelin, beautiful sunset band. But to prosaically answer the poem’s rhetorical question, I think no. It’s all here and now. Photographs help, but don’t do full justice.
This being said, I have a few to show. To complete the cycle with the impressive November 13 sunset, here is how the sky looked a little later by me:
And then, the sunset I missed, two days later, from the same vantage point. Luckily two of my colleagues captured it. They allowed me to post their shots. Ah, that sun pillar …
Hygge, I follow Owen Humphries. Have you seen this stunning Aurora picture by him?
https://twitter.com/owenhumphreys1/status/1196864517143171072/photo/2
Very nice! In New York City we had the much hyped cold front go through yesterday afternoon (like you did), which created lots of cloud spotting opportunities. Here is one sight from downtown Manhattan.
Hygge, incredible …
And off-off topic, if you look at the picture where the ship enters the New York Bay …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000b8rg/britains-biggest-warship-goes-to-sea-3-manhattan-ahoy
… you can see the building where I work. It’s right on the water line. About one third from the right, look for a sail boat on the water. Its sail points up to a “smallish” building (18 stories high) practically joined with a taller one (50 stories) behind it. I am steps away from the windows facing the Hudson River on the top floor of the smaller building, from where I took this shot yesterday.
Catherine, lovely brush strokes, like an abstract painting. I too found last Saturday to be good sky day. Here is what I was seeing for a short while near Milford PA, though things were changing rapidly. With clouds, it’s the moment. (Or it’s the pictures.)
Very nice catch. The clouds have been conducive to optical phenomena today in the NY area. Someone I know spotted a CZA in Queens and I saw one in Milford, PA.
