Timeline for Why do sunbeams diverge even though the sun is much more than a few kilometers away?
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| Mar 28, 2023 at 1:36 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by N. Virgo | ||
| Jun 20, 2019 at 1:36 | comment | added | Reinsbrain | the second image seems more like what i would expect with perspective - the train track images doesn't seem to follow perspective as you've proposed | |
| Jun 20, 2019 at 1:33 | comment | added | Reinsbrain | in the train tracks image, as in many images and experiences i've seen of crepuscular rays, i can note rays that appear to travel away (not towards) me. That seems to defy perspective. | |
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| Dec 28, 2014 at 18:41 | comment | added | matega | Doesn't the divergence of solar rays have also something to do with the huge size of the Sun (as opposed to a point)? This would give the answer to why individual, narrow sun beams diverge. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 13:12 | comment | added | Jens | @JanDvorak I've added one from a shuttle launch. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 3:06 | comment | added | N. Virgo | @JanDvorak some more ray-like examples can be found via a Google image search - I chose that example because of its copyright status. | |
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| Dec 26, 2014 at 8:00 | comment | added | John Dvorak | Interesting. I would think these are clouds, not rays of light. | |
| Dec 26, 2014 at 7:58 | comment | added | N. Virgo | @JanDvorak done! | |
| Dec 26, 2014 at 7:58 | history | edited | N. Virgo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2014 at 7:39 | comment | added | John Dvorak | Can we have a photo of anticrepuscular rays? | |
| Dec 26, 2014 at 7:29 | comment | added | joeytwiddle | That's a beautiful picture and a great way to illustrate the solution. It certainly derailed the mistaken analysis, and set us back on the right track. | |
| Dec 26, 2014 at 7:14 | comment | added | Sam Berry | Wow, great way to put things into perspective. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 14:51 | history | edited | N. Virgo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 25, 2014 at 12:22 | history | answered | N. Virgo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |