Talk:Anticrepuscular rays

The image of Chandler Arizona (Image:Anticrepuscularpano.jpg) is a great image... unfortunately, because of the width of images shown on Wikipedia, the anticrepuscular rays are invisible off the right edge when it displays on the page. This is rather unfortunate for an illustration of anticrepuscular rays! It's an artifact of selecting a fixed width for the image. I resized the image a little smaller, which makes the anticrepuscular rays visible in my monitor, but a viewer with a window that's not set to full screen won't see the rays. Geoffrey.landis 21:08, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Basic description _needed_
Nowhere in this article does it describe or explain anything about what it is, in terms ordinary people can understand. If you're an expert on crepescular whatnot, then I guess it's easy for you. But for us mortals, the article needs at least ONE sentence telling us what the the heck it is.

Anticrepuscular rays SUNSIDE explanation requested
I've been observing this effect more strongly lately and especially well from Europe's last solar eclipse where a dark ray extended from the sunset side of the sky, completely erasing the "refraction glow" of the sky in that area. On the opposide side of this is nothing at all for some reason. Anything on this? [[User:Murakumo-Eli

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te|Murakumo-Elite]] (talk) 04:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

What does Earth's spherical atmosphere have to do with anticrepuscular rays?
I think this bit is wrong:


 * Sunlight travels in straight lines, but the projections of these lines on Earth's spherical atmosphere are great circles. Hence ...

It's not the projection on Earth's spherical atmosphere that makes parallel lines appear to converge at the antisolar point, it's the the projection onto the observer's field of view. I can't think how to express this at the moment, so I'll fix it when I've worked it out.

Occultations (talk) 18:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I agree that the above comment is correct...
I agree that it is the observers perception not the aptmospher. Even if the rays were to be projected onto a flat surface the observer would still percieve a vanishing point.


 * I've fixed it. Occultations (talk) 16:35, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Grammar/language issue
Is this sentence grammatically correct: "This is because for crepuscular rays, seen on the same side of the sky as the sun, the atmospheric light scattering and making them visible is taking place at small angles"? Thanks in advance. -- KWiki (talk) 21:37, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

New Rainbow image
Keith McClary (talk) 01:15, 11 December 2020 (UTC)