Pages Tagged “sunset”
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- Blue Sunsets on Mars
One of many cool facts brought up in Phil Plait’s new book, Under Alien Skies is that Martian sunsets are blue! On Earth, nitrogen scatters light randomly, with bluer colors scattering more than redder colors, so the ambient sky is blue, but when you’re looking toward the sun at a shallow angle (like sunrise or […]
- Radiant Sunsets
I was stunned by the sunset rays stretching high into the sky. Another time, I captured the distorted sun setting behind palm trees and an orange sky.
- Purple Sunset
A magenta sunset in the distance, below the cloud cover, reflected in a bike path wet from a rare summer storm. (Update: I located the original photo on my hard drive and replaced the square Instagram crop with the full version, which I also uploaded to Flickr.)
- Reflections on Solar Alignment
Seeing the sun through a building, and then seeing the sunset in the east…wait, the east? Things get weird when the sun lines up with the street grid.
- Photos: Comet Watch LA
An evening watching the sun set above the clouds, a crescent moon pop into existence, Jupiter through a telescope, a red moonset, and of course a comet!
- Fire Dragon
Photo of clouds lit up by the setting sun, resembling a dragon or a giant phoenix.
- Post-Storm Beach Sunset (Photos)
I drove down to the nearest beach after work to catch the sunset and clouds. I also got to see rain over Santa Monica and clouds above Catalina.
- Ocean Sunsets: Beach and Bluffs
A twilight photo of a lifeguard tower on a deserted beach, and a trip to the top of Palos Verdes to watch the sun set over the ocean below.
- Orange Sunset & Double Rainbow Over LA (Photos)
We’ve had a couple of storms run through Los Angeles over the past week. Last Friday, I went up to the top of a parking structure after work to look at the clouds, and stayed to watch a double rainbow and the play of light at sunset.
- Land and Ocean Sunset (Geography Geekery)
The ocean sunset looked like the sun was setting behind a line of distant mountains. But was it possible, with only the sea to the west?
- Turning Los Angeles Orange
Last Wednesday night I rode the Green Line home at sunset. When it wasn’t blocked by trees or houses, I had a great view of Downtown Los Angeles reflecting the orange sunlight. After a few minutes, the train hit exactly the right angle to catch the setting sun itself reflected in all the downtown buildings! […]
- Orange Clouds at Sunset
The view when I stepped out of the office last Thursday night. Not retouched at all except for cropping.
- Maxfield Parrish Sky
Photo: I stepped out of the office building and felt like I’d stepped into a Maxfield Parrish painting. The whole sky looked like this.
- Hangar Sunset
Friday evening.
- Magenta Sunset
Watched the sun set, its disc tinged almost magenta by the smoke plume from the Morris fire near Azusa stretching along the horizon.
- Yellow Clouds at Sunset & Herringbone Moon
Last Thursday evening, this was the view from one of the office windows. Later that night, I took this photo. Or rather, these photos, since it’s a composite of two, one which picked up the herringbone pattern of the clouds and one which picked up the moon and the corona surrounding it.
- Orange Clouds (no rain)
The sunset view as I left the office this evening. The clouds turned even deeper orange over the drive home, with streamers of pink running halfway across the sky.
- Purple Sunset
On Monday evening, I looked out the front window and saw an unusually purple sky. I immediately went out to snap a few pictures, though the camera tried to adjust the exposure too much in most of them, making it really light. This one turned out very close to what I actually saw. Since then, […]
- Stringy Clouds at Sunset
Sunset on Tuesday, March 25th, with feathery cirrus clouds and contrails. A faint sundog is visible as a slight brightening at the level of the sun, about 2/3 of the way across the picture.
- Sunset
View from the office parking lot earlier this evening:
- Mauna Kea Sky Shadow
Today’s APOD features the shadow of a Hawaiian mountain against the sky at sunset. I was reminded of a similar photo from my own visit to Mauna Kea.
- Compensations
Losing a tree to last weekend’s Santa Ana winds means there’s no more shade in the afternoon. Not an issue most of this past week, but Sunday was both sunny and hot, and with the window closed and the blinds open, all that heat went straight into the living room. On the other hand, it […]
- Golden Lining
Friday, September 28: Adding to the mish-mash of photo sources on here, this is a still frame from a video clip taken out the window of the car. It wasn’t supposed to be a video clip, but my camera has a sliding switch for selecting photo/video/review, and it has a tendency to shift while in […]
- Cobweb-cloud sunset
I stepped out of the office last Thursday (September 27—it was a good week for interesting late-afternoon skies) and saw this view to the west. The clouds glowing as if from within, and the curved bands as if the whole set had been dragged across the sky, reminded me a bit of pictures of reflection […]
- Crimson Rainbow
Friday was the first rain we’d seen in over a month. By evening, the trailing edge of the storm was starting to cross central Orange County, and I actually drove back into the cloud cover to pick Katie up from work. We ended up stopping for dinner, and got back on the road around sunset. […]
- Two Sunsets
Just after sunset on Wednesday, February 7. Just before sunset on Monday, February 12.
- Evening Skies
Here are a couple of photos, one just before sunset, the other just after, over the past month. First up is a twilight view of South Coast Plaza. On Friday the 13th, we went to the nearest Borders to pick up The End of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events and Neil Gaiman’s new short […]
- Smoke and Fog
Monday morning dawned foggy. By the time we left for work, most of the fog had burned off, but we looked out the car window and saw a huge, billowing gray cloud hugging close to the ground. If this had been the usual fire season, or if there had been no fog to start with […]
- Sunrise, Sunset
The first photo is from Wednesday morning around 8:00. Katie took it on our drive to work. There’s actually another shot that shows more of the sky, but this one is more striking. The second shows tonight’s sunset as seen from the Metro Pointe parking lot. Yes, it’s a freeway in the foreground, but the […]
- That Belt of Venus Thing
About a month ago I posted about noticing the Belt of Venus—the red band that circles the entire horizon just after sunset—and the Earth’s shadow on the sky. I snapped this picture on the drive home this evening. This is looking east, away from the setting sun. If you look at the right edge of […]
- Feathered Sunset
Here’s a picture of last Wednesday’s sunset (September 14) as seen from the 405 in Irvine. The photo links to a larger copy. And no, I wasn’t trying to get the “monolith” in there. I don’t remember exactly where this was, so I’m not even sure what the sign is for.
- Look, up in the sky!
A few nights ago I was walking around sunset, and decided to look for something that had been mentioned last week on the Astronomy Picture of the Day: the Belt of Venus. Somehow I’d never noticed that after sunset, the band of red encircles the entire sky at the horizon. Even more amazing, if you […]
- Mauna Kea
And now for something completely different: Hawaiian snow. On our second-to-last day in Hawaii, we took a tour up to the summit of Mauna Kea, the highest mountain in the state at 13,796 feet. And even in early April, they still had snow at the summit. We caught a somewhat hazy view of it from […]