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Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
03/10/2020
06:27 pm

Equipment Details:

Hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ 60 in sunset mode

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop Elements 15 - register and size reduce three pictures to prepare mosaic

Image Details:

Post-sunset Crepuscular Rays
Twenty minutes after sunset on Tuesday there was a magnificent display of radiating post-sunset crepuscular rays with deep shadows. Light from the Sun below the horizon was being projected towards and reflected from a local layer of thin high level cloud and/or more widespread volcanic or forest fire derived stratospheric aerosols. The strongly colored post-sunset twilight arches in this mosaic were observed about twenty minutes after sunset on the previous three days and support aerosol involvement.