What I find fascinating objects of beauty are the ways different clouds modify light or are illuminated by different kinds of light, from the belt of Venus to different kinds of halos to crepuscular and anti solar rays.

I remember that one time where anti-solar rays painted pole to pole "longitudes" on the hemispherical dome of the sky. It's too bad we don't have photographic memory, or at least I don't.

It is such a wonderful world if one has the luxury of time and space and the foresight to remove oneself from the cover of a ceiling once in a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_of_Venus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepuscular_rays#Gallery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticrepuscular_rays#/media/Fi...

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rendaw 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm having trouble understanding the Belt of Venus one. Isn't purple expected to be there per ROYGBIV? Also the second image looks orange to me, not purple.

> It is a pinkish glow that surrounds the observer

This also makes no sense to me, or else maybe observer is jargon? But there's no hyperlink... The photographer certainly doesn't seem to be surrounded by a pinkish glow.

Is it just a name for the purple part of the spectrum?

	▲	srean 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Isn't purple expected to be there per ROYGBIV I do not understand the Physics of the phenomenon very well, but I would expect the high frequency wavelengths (for example, purple) to be scattered away. "Surround" does not describe the phenomenon of Belt of Venus adequately. Think of it like a horizontal band wrapped around the dome of the sky, slightly above the horizon, and prominent towards the West, fading towards the East.