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Subject: Re: clouds (green flash)
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Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 06:27:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 13 06:27:17 1984
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From:  Preston Mullen <mullen@NRL-CSS>

Thanks to Bill Jefferys for citing a reference on the green flash;
I've long wanted an explanation of this phenomenon.

I saw one under just such conditions a few days before Christmas,
1977.  I was in a boat crossing from St. Kitts to Nevis (in the
Caribbean).  Another person in the boat saw it too.

It lasted about one second.  It didn't "shoot up from the horizon" in
any extreme sense, but had just about the shape you would expect from
covering all but a thin edge of the sun with the horizon.

It was beautiful, a perfect Christmas present.

P.S.  Although I lived in the Caribbean for a couple of years and
also spent some months in the South Atlantic near the equator, I
never saw another one.  Guess I was usually on the wrong side of
the island at sundown.

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