Talk:Green flash

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PAGE IS A MESS, pictures over text and vice versa. Someone clean it up? I don't know how.Mzmadmike 14:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Previously the article said that you both needed a low line of hills and an unobstructed view of the horizon. I kept the unobstructed view as I know an amateur astronomer who just saw it for the first time last month over the ocean. Is there any reason a low line of hills would also work? --rmhermen

A key issue seems to be atmospheric layering and 'the right conditions'. It could be a low line of hills would help keep things still and enhance the layering? User:Rjstott In any event the effect is enhanced by a low horizon.

I've seen it just once, but quite impressive. Like all other references I recall, it was over the ocean, seen from the waterfront. All references I recall also call it the green flash, so I'm thinking that might be the preferred page title, but maybe others' experience differs?--Richard Jones 13:28, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Page title

(William M. Connolley 20:15, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)) I think the common name for this is green flash. green ray is less common. Google gives GF 35k and GR 9k (but this is complicated by other things that match). This page [1] even says that GR and GF are different things!

I just moved it to "Green flash" and I mentioned that green ray and green flash are not completely synonymous. AxelBoldt 23:47, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

This page needs a picture. It would be nice if we could find an uncopyrighted one, or if someone would take one (easier said than done, I know) and release it under the GFDL. Wmahan. 21:58, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Green flash in the media

Does this refer to the green flash legend from the Florida Keys? If so, I could reference Carl Hiassen's new book "Flush" in this article. (I'm actually reading it right now, so I thought I'd ask...) Mattderojas 23:24, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I recently did a whole slew of research on the Green Flash and hope to greatly expand the article when I have time. I was recently reading Flush, too, and I was surprised when I read about the Green Flash. I added it to the article. --M@thwiz2020 01:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Floridian literature and Floridians themselves, up and down the peninsula, are steeped in the green flash. I added a reference to a well-known example, the 1962 novel A Flash of Green by John D. MacDonald, who arrived in Florida in 1949. The 1984 film by Victor Nuñez (Ulee's Gold) starring Ed Harris is an adaptation of the MacDonald novel. Rt3368 (talk) 02:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blue flash

"Very occasionally, the amount of blue light is sufficient to be visible as a "blue flash". (This is not to be confused with the blue flash reported to occur during nuclear criticality accidents.)" – HA HA HA, who the hell would confuse a blue flash of the setting sun with a nuclear criticality accident? :P Bossk-Office 00:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Someone seeing it suddenly, while otherwise engaged, during a threat scenario. Unlikely, but possible. Would you prefer they didn't specify? But seriously, people come to an encyclopedia because they don't know the answer. If there are two answers, they need access to both. Mzmadmike 14:42, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
It's not the two phenomena which are confusable, it's the fact that the same term is used to name them. The wording was obviously an attempt at disambiguating the usage, which is valid since someone searching for 'blue flash' will be led here.220.239.3.5 00:50, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] removing pictures

Everybody, before you remove a picture, please, ask yourself few quesions: "What do I know about green flashes? How many I've seen myself and am I really qualified to decide what picture to remove?" Thank you. Mbz1

Wikipedia is not your image repository. Please do not get upset because someone removed one or mroe of the eight hojillion images you added to this page. Jeez. Assume good faith, my friend. Assume good faith. // 24.250.125.206 13:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I hope no one minds, I removed the fourth image (an animation) as I didn't think it added anything and was pretty jerky. The image above has something very similar running across the bottom as a film strip. I also re-arranged the text to make to formatting better. I think the article looks fine now but content could do with some work. Seems like a good subject

CaptinJohn 15:45, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Please help ensure that all free-use images are uploaded to Commons, as opposed to here on the English Wikipedia. Also, please add them to the page on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Green_Flash. That way, they will still be available even if they are removed from this article. Unlike this article, Commons pages actually are image repositories. Thanks! JohnMGarrison (talk) 03:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)