Sunbeam
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A sunbeam, in meteorological optics, is a beam of sunlight that appears to radiate from the position of the Sun. Shining through openings in clouds or between other objects such as mountains and build
Sunbeams in Nevada during a sunset
Daytime sunbeams as seen from the ISS, illustrating their parallel nature
Crepuscular rays as seen from Taipei, Taiwan (2018)
These anticrepuscular rays appear to converge at the antisolar point, as viewed from an aircraft above the clouded ocean.
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
Sunbeam
…point on the celestial sphere opposite of the Sun's direction. In this case, they are called antisolar rays (anytime not during astronomical night) or anticrepuscular rays (during the twilight period). This apparent dual convergence (at both the solar and the antisolar points) is a perspective effect analogous to the…
Anticrepuscular rays toward the eastern horizon, as seen from Colorado at dusk
Anticrepuscular rays at Kaikōura, South Island, New Zealand.
A "wagon-wheel spokes" double rainbow with anti-crepuscular rays, Hurunui, New Zealand