blue flash

From Glossary of Meteorology
Similar in most ways to the green flash, the wavelength-dependent refraction that gives a red rim on the low sun's bottom would be expected to give a blue rim on its top.

Often scattering diminishes the relative spectral radiance of the shortest wavelengths sufficiently that green is perceived, but not always.


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