The Cellar - Jan 25, 2010: Zodiacal Light

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xoxoxoBruce

01-24-2010 10:41 PM

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. :haha:

http://cellar.org/2010/suntail.jpg

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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.

See, dirt is good, you clean freaks. :p

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monster

01-24-2010 11:00 PM

Looks like an egg frying in the sea.

xoxoxoBruce

01-24-2010 11:04 PM

Yes, except the sea is clouds... at about 8,000 ft.

monster

01-24-2010 11:13 PM

right. hence the "looks like...." :rolleyes:

..it looks like an egg frying in the sea, but actually it's not an egg or the sea. funny business, this

SPUCK

01-25-2010 03:07 AM

Zodiacal Light? Yeah right. That's just my neighbor's house lit up like the state pen.

Trilby

01-25-2010 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 629757)

Looks like an egg frying in the sea.

Similie win!

Pie	01-25-2010 08:32 AM

FWIW, the zodiacal light is the haze in the sky, not the lights on the ground. :rolleyes:

lupin..the..3rd

01-25-2010 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Pie (Post 629804)

FWIW, the zodiacal light is the haze in the sky, not the lights on the ground. :rolleyes:

I thought the ground was the clouds at 8000 feet? Therefore, the egg in the sea is sky.

glatt

01-25-2010 09:07 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

01-25-2010 09:17 AM

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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

01-25-2010 11:10 AM

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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.

The yellow fried egg is the sun shining through the clouds from below.

Pie	01-25-2010 11:16 AM

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

01-25-2010 11:25 AM

So it must be an egg.

glatt

01-25-2010 11:30 AM

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	01-25-2010 11:43 AM

Fire! Fire! [/beavis]

Pie	01-25-2010 12:26 PM

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Another example....

Pie	01-25-2010 12:27 PM

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...and the Photoshop. :p

classicman

01-25-2010 12:54 PM

nice one pie ;)

Gravdigr

01-25-2010 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 629835)

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.

Dingdingding. We have a winnah! (works for me, anyway)

Elspode

01-26-2010 12:01 AM

I like the German name for this phenomenon, which I believe is "Gegenschein".

ZenGum

01-26-2010 04:46 AM

[applauds pie]

sullage

01-26-2010 06:03 AM

i love this image

xoxoxoBruce

01-26-2010 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 629835)

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.

I think you're right... or it could be the light from Pie's kitchen light fixture in the sky. :haha:

Queen of the Ryche

01-26-2010 01:14 PM

It's a shark.

Pie	01-26-2010 01:23 PM

(for clarity, the ps wasn't mine, just something I found whilst googling.)

Spexxvet

01-26-2010 01:27 PM

Nice Googling, Pie! :blush:

Sheldonrs

01-26-2010 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 630095)

Nice Googling Pie! :blush:

Is that a euphemism?

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