Atmospheric Optics: Rays and Shadows

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written by Les Cowley

This part of the Atmospheric Optics site by Les Cowley provides an image gallery of natural rays and shadows that occur as small particles scatter light in the atmosphere. A variety of images such as distorted suns, cloud shadows, mountain shadows, spreading rays, and more are presented. Along with each photo is an explanation of the related physics.

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/rayshad.htm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - The Sun Optics - Color - Diffraction - General - Interference	- High School - Lower Undergraduate - Informal Education - Upper Undergraduate	- Reference Material - Audio/Visual = Image/Image Set

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	This resource was featured by the Physics To Go collection from April 1, 2007 until April 16, 2007. View the feature here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: Additional information is available.
Keywords:: crepuscular, green flash, ice halo, image gallery, rainbow, refract, scatter, sunset, water droplet
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created March 25, 2007 by Ann Deml
Record Updated:: March 26, 2007 by Ed Lee
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 24, 2007

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