Crepuscular Rays | Mila Zinkova

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Photographer:

Mila Zinkova

Location of Photo:

San Francisco,California

Date/Time of photo:

10/15/06 around 10 a.m.

Equipment:

Pentax point and shot

Description:

The sun was behind me and I believed these were anti-crepuscular rays. I sent the picture to Andy Young and here's what he writes about it: "These are essentially crepuscular rays, formed in the remaining fog by the light reflected from the windows of the building. The fog droplets are fairly large, so they're strongly forward-scattering. That limits the angular length of the rays, which don't extend very far from the image of the Sun formed behind each window. That makes these really *crepuscular* rather than anti-crepuscular rays; they're seen in the anti-solar direction because that's where the light source (the reflection of the Sun in a window) is."

Website:

http://home.comcast.net/~milazinkova/Fogshadow.html