The Green Flash

I cant make it out, too bad I have spent many sunsets in search of the green flash.
 
It's fleeting as they all are apparently. Look closely around 005-006 and it's there. There's also some green flickers just before that as well.
 
Didn't see it in the video either... but that just proves it's hard to catch.

I HAVE seen the Green Flash and yes it DOES exist!!!
 
Theree are many theories about the green flash but my favorite is involves persistance of vision and vision fatigue. That is, the eye accomodates the strong red sunlight of sunset by having the brain adjust in the direction of white light. Or, the eye saturates with red light. As soon as the red light disappears, the eye "realizes" the complementary color which, of course, is green. The image persists until the brain re-adjusts so a lot of your ability to see the green flash depends on your persistance of vision and how fast your brain can retune.

Some people never see it while others swear its always there. It certainly won't show up in a photo. It's strictly mental.
 
Hmmm maybe it IS mental... I'll have to try and photograph it. It's pretty common here on the West Coast of FL.
 
My 2 workers saw it a minute ago but it's really fleeting. There are a few green flickers just prior to it though.

And from our pals at wikileaks(which I'm sure we'd all like to do all over them):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Flash
 
My wife thinks I'm crazy when I tell her about seeing it.
 
OK, iz a stunod.
I see the green light, then the whole thing disapears.
Is this a marker or a USO or what?
 
Timely post! Wife and I were watching for it tonight. Works better over water than over land, but it's been seen far from water. Tonight was a narrow bay with low land behind. I thought I might've seen it, then went back to the car where she was sitting and said she saw it.
Seen it in the Keys and across the Gulf on FL West Coast. Fascinating! Thanks!
 
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Originally posted by Britanic

OK, iz a stunod.
I see the green light, then the whole thing disapears.
Is this a marker or a USO or what?

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Ditto.
 
I don't get it? What is the green flash supposed to be?
Jim
 
Wiki posted above has a good description of it.
 
I did see the sunset through a margarita, does that count?
 
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Originally posted by 32carv

I don't get it? What is the green flash supposed to be?
Jim

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There is the "green ray" type of green flash that is when just as the last bit of the sun dips below the horizon an emerald green laser like light stretches from edge to edge on the horizon for the blink of an eye.

I have been lucky enough to have seen it twice. With other witnesses. Interestingly enough in almost the same spot each time.

Then there is the more common "green flash". (Which now that I got the video to download I do see a bit of at 0:06) That is where just as the sun dips down the last bit of the sun goes green. But the color is less intense and it does not run along the full horizon edge or shoot up from the point of the sunset.
 
There's a very cool restaurant on Anna Maria Island, (west coast of Florida, just south of Tampa Bay) where it's an evening ritual to green flash watch. Patron who guesses the exact time of the flash (when/if seen) gets a free bottle of champagne.
 
I have seen a red flash in my rear view mirror, cost me $150.00
 
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