Anticrepuscular rays
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Anticrepuscular rays, or antisolar rays, are meteorological optical phenomena similar to crepuscular rays, but appear opposite the Sun in the sky. Anticrepuscular rays are essentially parallel, but ap
Anticrepuscular rays toward the eastern horizon, as seen from Colorado at dusk
These anticrepuscular rays appear to converge at the antisolar point, as seen from an aircraft above the clouded ocean.
Anticrepuscular rays at Kaikōura, South Island, New Zealand.
A "wagon-wheel spokes" double rainbow with anti-crepuscular rays, Hurunui, New Zealand
Crepuscular rays
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Crepuscular rays, sometimes colloquially known as god rays, twilight rays, or Jacob's ladder, are visible shafts of sunlight that originate when the Sun appears to be just above or below a layer of cl
Anticrepuscular rays
…Anticrepuscular rays, or antisolar rays, are meteorological optical phenomena similar to crepuscular rays, but appear opposite the Sun in the sky. Anticrepuscular rays are essentially parallel, but appear to converge toward the antisolar point, the vanishing…
Sunlight shining through clouds, giving rise to crepuscular rays over Lake Hāwea, New Zealand
Sunset at Heron Island, Queensland, Australia (April 2023)
Crepuscular rays before sunset, Tikveš
Crepuscular rays through dark rain clouds over suburban New South Wales, Australia