Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Green Flash (optical phenomenon)

Green Flash (optical phenomenon)

Original - Green flashes are optical phenomena that occur shortly after or during sunset or before or during sunrise, when a green spot is visible, usually for no more than a second or two, above the sun, or a green ray shoots up from the sunset point. Green flashes are actually a group of phenomena stemming from different causes. Here's an explanation of that particular sequence written Dr. Andrew Young: "I think that really is a short duct, with the Sun becoming visible in the duct more quickly than one usually sees. Thanks for assembling this nice sequence! The sunset lasted quite long, didn't it? The optical path through the air is very great at the end; the images become more and more distorted by irregularities in the refraction -- both waves and turbulence."

Reason

Great EV, very good quality, interesting image of rarely seen phenomena

Articles in which this image appears

green flash

Creator

Mbz1

• Support as nominator --Mbz1 (talk) 22:54, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom. It might be useful to add the time period that the images were taken over to the caption. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:13, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Lovely sequence, shows the process very clearly. I agree that mentioning the sequence's duration on the description page would improve the EV. -- Avenue (talk) 03:09, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support I would also like a the time period to be included on the image (but I wouldn't require it for support). Also, green flash could use an image-trim. It's pretty heavy at the moment. Jujutacular ^T · C 04:16, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom.  franklin  14:40, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom --Muhammad(talk) 02:13, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom --George Chernilevsky ^talk 11:07, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
• Comment have you tried making this into an animation? It could be interesting to see that way. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:11, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
• Yes, it would have been very interesting, but I do not know how to do it. I am willing to email you the originals, if you could do it. Of course it will take quite a few emails to send them all I am afraid :( because IMO, if we are to to make an animation, it will be better to include more images. Maybe an animation could be done from the image from the nominated image? I do have a bigger composite of the same sunset: .--Mbz1 (talk) 23:20, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Development of Green Flash.jpg —Maedin\^talk 18:08, 3 March 2010 (UTC)