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[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Ray ]Green Ray[/url]
Patrick Moore mentioned it the other day too.
I used to have a girlfriend who was quite obsessed about seeing it. Never did.
I've looked for it a few times, quite hard to keep looking in the vicinity of the sun even at sunset. Never seen it. Myth?
Almost, I was below decks when some of the other crew seen it in the carribean, about 1993. I knew some sailors who had seen it a few times.
My dad went green once after a night drinking stella with me, his name is Ray BTW.
I saw it when I was sailing a boat from falmouth to gibraltar .
To be honest it wasnt especially spectacular
I saw [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091830/ ]the film[/url] once, which apart from the ray itself at the end is a bit of a chore.
My wife and I saw it (we called it a green flash) a short time after sunset whilst looking west out to sea from Ardnamurchan peninsula. It quite freaked us out at the time, but on doing a bit of research when we got home, realised that we had been quite lucky! It was very spectacular from our viewpoint - something I'll never forget.
"Ardnamurchan peninsula"
It is a special place.
My wife and I saw it (we called it a green flash) a short time after sunset whilst looking west out to sea from Ardnamurchan peninsula. It quite freaked us out at the time, but on doing a bit of research when we got home, realised that we had been quite lucky! It was very spectacular from our viewpoint - something I'll never forget.
Cool! How long after the sun went down?
My wife has just corrected me, it was about 20 - 25 mins after the sun sunk below the horizon and it wasn't green, it was blue. We had pitched our tent and for the previous hour had been watching the most amazing red sunset and were just chilling out when there was this amazing light that lit up EVERYTHING in blue for about half a second. Like I said, it was quite scary at the time, but really quite awesome too. The conditions were perhaps just right for this type of phenomena - it certainly was a very spectacularly red sunset prior to the blue ray. This is supposedly very rare.
My father is a sailor, and I know he saw the green flash somewhere in the middle of the Indian ocean. He told me it was incredible, and he's not too salty so I'm pretty sure he's telling the truth.