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2024-07-19 04:06:35

APOD on Nostr: **Astronomy Picture of the Day** 19 July 2024 **Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet ...

**Astronomy Picture of the Day**

19 July 2024

**Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival**



Image Credit & Copyright: Pavel Gabzdyl

For some, these subtle bands of light and shadow stretched across the sky as the Sun set on July 11. Known as anticrepuscular rays, the bands are formed as a large cloud bank near the western horizon cast long shadows through the atmosphere at sunset. Due to the camera's perspective, the bands of light and shadow seem to converge toward the eastern (opposite) horizon at a point seen just above a 14th century hilltop castle near Brno, Czech Republic. In the foreground, denizens of planet Earth are enjoying the region's annual Planet Festival in the park below the Brno Observatory and Planetarium. And while crepuscular and anticrepuscular rays are a relatively common atmospheric phenomenon, this festival's 10 meter diameter inflatable spheres representing bodies of the Solar System are less often seen on planet Earth.

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