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by Elias Chasiotis
Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:00 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay (2009 Aug 04)
Replies: 338
Views: 50362

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

From the glossary of the book "Color and light in nature" by D. Lynch and W. Livingston (Cambridge University Press, second edition, 2001), p.266: " multiple suns (moons) unexplained occurrences of multiple images of the sun". I would like to know what was in this book. Are they...
by Elias Chasiotis
Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:38 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: 50362

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

From the glossary of the book "Color and light in nature" by D. Lynch and W. Livingston (Cambridge University Press, second edition, 2001), p.266:
"multiple suns (moons) unexplained occurrences of multiple images of the sun".
by Elias Chasiotis
Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:52 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: 50362

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

At first the image looked fake to me, but then i remembered that i have seen sketches of multiple moons in the books of the master of atmospheric optics, Professor Marcel Minnaert (1893 - 1970). So, in his book "Light and color in the outdoors" (Springer- Verlag, 1993), page 80, the author...