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Post by sdphoto on Nov 10, 2011 16:38:17 GMT -6
I am a photographer and have learned how light works. I was watching fact or faked and was disappointed no one knew about this. There is an effect called The superior mirage which explains the real Paulding Light effect which is much more amazing then lights from the close road and is a must see for a rare natural phenomenon! it is explained at this website www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/supmrge.htm and here is the 7th paragraph explaining the phenomena. The superior mirage forms when cold air lies beneath relatively warmer air, a conditions known to meteorologists as a temperature inversion. In this condition, light rays refract, or bend, toward the colder (and denser) air -- that is, downward. This bending causes the image of the object to appear to us to be above its actual position because our brains assume the light rays have taken a straight path from the object to our eyes. The rate of increase of temperature with height (the temperature gradient) affects how the light rays travel from the object to our eyes and thus how we see the resulting image pattern. The superior mirage may cause the image (or parts thereof) of an object to appear: so the light seen is actually further away than the highway and over the horizon refracted thru normal "not swamp gas" atmosphere hence seen year round, and explains the more unnatural light over the obvious headlights and if you want to argue the fact think back to when you were in school when light was explained and the teacher showed you a triangular crystal that separated light into diffrent colors the light went around a bend www.amiright.com/album-covers/ima....Of-The-Moon.jpg. The light will also be brighter due to the fact that the atmosphere is acting like a magnifying glass as well. Plus atmosphere moves and is not perfect like a magnifying glass or crystal so the light will have changing edges. One more thing the reason the Paulding light appears on that hill is the hill itself. think of the air like water moving over a rock there will be a peak to it as it flows over the rock causing an angel like that of the Pink Floyd cover posted earlier in my post. So its really like a superior superior mirage effect the cool and warm air of the night as the sun goes down is also made into a peak causing a natural lens. I will make a blog explaining this an posting the link later because there are people that hunt down sites around the world for this effect.
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