Posted on 09/04/2022 4:07:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Every step caused the sand to light up blue. That glow was bioluminescence -- a blue radiance that also lights the surf in this surreal scene captured in mid-2018 at Meyer's Creek Beach in Oregon, USA. Volcanic stacks dot the foreground sea, while a thin fog layer scatters light on the horizon. The rays of light spreading from the left horizon were created by car headlights on the Oregon Coast Highway (US 101), while the orange light on the right horizon emanates from a fishing boat. Visible far in the distance is the band of our Milky Way Galaxy, appearing to rise from a dark rocky outcrop. Sixteen images were added together to bring up the background Milky Way and to reduce noise.
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Excellent. Head-shop poster worthy!
I live in rural Hawaii, very rural Hawaii. virtually no light pollution. The milky way does NOT look like that.
Nice photo. The place is Myers Creek, though. It’s near Pistol River, between Gold Beach and Brookings. I used to know the area well.
You are south if Oregon. I grew up in Colorado and yeah it does
Having lived in suburbia my entire life we once,while on vacation,drove down from Tampa to Key West...a long drive. We got tired half way down the Keys and decided to stop for the night. It was cool,crisp and clear January night and while just relaxing outside I looked up and for the first time in my life I saw about 100 billion stars twinkling brightly. I was astounded. I can still remember it...35 years later.
I don’t recall it looking that way in the San Juan islands,
WA state,under sail at night.
Time exposure makes it artificial. Stars are right but the “cloud” is not.
It does, you just need a camera with time exposure. And maybe color filters.
Didn’t look that way to me either, when I lived and worked along that stretch of coast. Not sure you meant to address your comment to me, though.
I stay in Maui for long time - 22 years and you are correct it does not look like that at in most places - ‘cept top of Haleakala and Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea.
Come to the Rockies or the high Uinta’s in Utah and yes it does look like that.
Just 2 days age I let the dog out at 2:15am and did not even have to wait for the eyes to adjust - it looked like that.
Lot’s of replies from folks that live on the coast.
There is too much water in the air for it to look like that so multiple exposures are combined for the image.
But come to the mountains and...
The sky the night of the Northridge
earthquake was pretty spectacular.
Too bad I was distracted.
I worked at the summit of Mauna kea for nearly ten years.
At nearly 14,000 feet you cant see shit at night. You body is too low on oxygen and eyes are the first to go.
Hale Pohaku is where you observe with normal eyesight, and it still doesn’t have that “cloud effect”.
I worked at the Keck’s for nearly ten years.
Beaches between Gold Beach and Brookings.
I envy you!🙂I would’ve had a hard time with my COPD, however.
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