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Jan 25, 2010: Zodiacal Light
Zodiacal Light, sounds like the quickie horoscopes from fortune cookies, or the newspaper's comics page.
Actually, Zodiacal Light is a fancy name for the Sun's tail. 
| The zodiacal light is sunlight reflected by dust particles between the Sun and Earth, and is best seen close to sunrise or sunset. As its name implies, this celestial glow appears in the ring of constellations known as the zodiac. These are found along the ecliptic, which is the eastward apparent “path” that the Sun traces across Earth’s sky. |
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monster Monday Jan 25 12:00 AM
Looks like an egg frying in the sea.
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jan 25 12:04 AM
Yes, except the sea is clouds... at about 8,000 ft.
monster Monday Jan 25 12:13 AM
right. hence the "looks like...." 
..it looks like an egg frying in the sea, but actually it's not an egg or the sea. funny business, this
SPUCK Monday Jan 25 04:07 AM
Zodiacal Light? Yeah right. That's just my neighbor's house lit up like the state pen.
Trilby Monday Jan 25 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by monster
Looks like an egg frying in the sea.
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Pie Monday Jan 25 09:32 AM
FWIW, the zodiacal light is the haze in the sky, not the lights on the ground.
lupin..the..3rd Monday Jan 25 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Pie
FWIW, the zodiacal light is the haze in the sky, not the lights on the ground.
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glatt Monday Jan 25 10:07 AM
"The La Silla Observatory is located at the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert, one of the driest and loneliest areas of the world. Like other observatories in this geographical area, La Silla is located far from sources of light pollution and, like the Paranal Observatory, home to the Very Large Telescope, it has one of the darkest night skies on the Earth."
glatt Monday Jan 25 10:17 AM
Actually, the egg could be in the sea. La Silla is about 40 miles from the Pacific ocean. Using Google Earth, you can see that the ocean is visible from there.
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jan 25 12:10 PM
| The photograph was taken at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile in September 2009, facing west some minutes after the Sun had set. A sea of clouds has settled in the valley below La Silla, which sits at an altitude of 2400 metres, with lesser peaks and ridges poking through the mist. |
Pie Monday Jan 25 12:16 PM
The sun's in the plane of the ecliptic, so it would be co-linear with the zodiacal light. The bright semi-foreground object is not in that plane.
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jan 25 12:25 PM
So it must be an egg.
glatt Monday Jan 25 12:30 PM
I think it's the lights from the coastal village of Los Choros (29 17' 26"S, 71 18' 34"W) lighting up some fog.
jinx Monday Jan 25 12:43 PM
Fire! Fire! [/beavis]
Pie Monday Jan 25 01:26 PM
Another example....
Pie Monday Jan 25 01:27 PM
...and the Photoshop. :p
classicman Monday Jan 25 01:54 PM
nice one pie 
Gravdigr Monday Jan 25 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by glatt
I think it's the lights from the coastal village of Los Choros (29 17' 26"S, 71 18' 34"W) lighting up some fog.
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Elspode Tuesday Jan 26 01:01 AM
I like the German name for this phenomenon, which I believe is "Gegenschein".
ZenGum Tuesday Jan 26 05:46 AM
[applauds pie]
sullage Tuesday Jan 26 07:03 AM
i love this image
xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Jan 26 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by glatt
I think it's the lights from the coastal village of Los Choros (29 17' 26"S, 71 18' 34"W) lighting up some fog.
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Queen of the Ryche Tuesday Jan 26 02:14 PM
It's a shark.
Pie Tuesday Jan 26 02:23 PM
(for clarity, the ps wasn't mine, just something I found whilst googling.)
Spexxvet Tuesday Jan 26 02:27 PM
Nice Googling, Pie! 
Sheldonrs Tuesday Jan 26 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
Nice Googling Pie!
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