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by silentbanshe
Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:03 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay (2009 Aug 04)
Replies: 338
Views: 49763

Re: Cause of Triple Sunrise (APOD 2009 August 4)

"this is an internal reflection in multilayer architectural glass" But for it to be a reflection from glass, wouldn't the picture need to be taken from an angle not perpendicular to the glass? If it was through glass, there wouldn't and at a non-perpendicular angle, it would not cause a re...
by silentbanshe
Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:57 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay (2009 Aug 04)
Replies: 338
Views: 49763

Re: Cause of Triple Sunrise (APOD 2009 August 4)

In this case, might it not be due to the curvature of light and the earth. In non-euclidian geometry light is said to be curved rather than straight, and so is the earth. Might this not be caused by the two curvatures creating an at their "edges" creating an odd angle, and the light is the...