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Onthebit
1st March 2018, 11:00
This is probably not strange but since I have not noticed before then it's odd to me. 15 mins ago I watched the blazing red moon slide not over the horizon but into a pocket in a clear sky?????? There she was in full glory when I went to put the kettle on so took 5 mins total to disappear into this invisible horizon pocket most of which time I spent looking for my camera. Heres a pic with just the bottom disappeared:

1994

I mean it slid it's whole self into a pocket until there was just a smudge of colour in a cloudless sky. This is quite possibly normal and I have not observed before....I always assumed like the sun it goes over the earth's horizon.......now I'd like a better explanation.

Aragorn
1st March 2018, 12:01
This is probably not strange but since I have not noticed before then it's odd to me. 15 mins ago I watched the blazing red moon slide not over the horizon but into a pocket in a clear sky?????? There she was in full glory when I went to put the kettle on so took 5 mins total to disappear into this invisible horizon pocket most of which time I spent looking for my camera. Heres a pic with just the bottom disappeared:

1994

I mean it slid it's whole self into a pocket until there was just a smudge of colour in a cloudless sky. This is quite possibly normal and I have not observed before....I always assumed like the sun it goes over the earth's horizon.......now I'd like a better explanation.

It's an optical effect caused by atmospheric lensing, not dissimilar to a Fata Morgana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_%28mirage%29). The main difference is that a Fata Morgana is caused by the heating of the air above the ground or the ocean water, whereas atmospheric lensing takes place at much higher altitude. :)

The principle is however the same, i.e. differences in air temperature — and thus also in air density — cause light to become diffracted and refracted in different directions, which then results in this kind of optical distortions. ;)

In addition to that, the halo around the sun in your picture signifies that there would have been a haze in the air, possibly some fog, and closer to the horizon, this fog appears to have been a lot thicker and more cloud-like. So that too then accounts for the disappearing image of bottom of the sun. ;)

Onthebit
1st March 2018, 13:50
Ok so pretend this is the moon this morning........no don't pretend because it IS the moon. I figured it was atmospheric phenomena but I don't recall observing it before and it was amazing and crazy.

Aragorn
1st March 2018, 14:07
Ok so pretend this is the moon this morning........no don't pretend because it IS the moon. I figured it was atmospheric phenomena but I don't recall observing it before and it was amazing and crazy.

The prevalence of seemingly unintelligible phenomena over the ages is exactly what has given rise to the various myths surrounding magic, as well as to local superstitions and — in a later phase — the major religions. ;)

Even now today, almost half a century after the first Apollo moon landing, and with all kinds of satellites orbiting the Earth above our heads, there are still people who vehemently hold on to the fable that Earth would be flat. :rolleyes:

Likewise, while we've already long known that the observable universe is about 13.7 billion years old, and Earth itself some 4 billion years, and that the last dinosaurs vanished from the face of the Earth some 65 million years ago, there are also still people who swear that Earth was created only 6'000 years ago, and that Adam and Eve lived together with the dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden. :p

Oh, and let's not forget sundogs. ;) There are still people claiming that it's Nibiru. :p

Dumpster Diver
1st March 2018, 15:25
I don’t buy the 13.7 billion year old universe anymore as it’s all tied to the redshift propaganda.

...it all began when God started up the simulation. :onthequite:

Onthebit
2nd March 2018, 10:23
Aragon I just knew you would say it's Nibiru. ;-) It was the moon--I saw it with my own eyes......oh wait.....I'm not to believe my own eyes....hmmmmm?? I take it you also see the exhaust trails left by airplanes?

enjoy being
2nd March 2018, 10:31
Hmm well I don't really know what to think about sceptics. :-P

Some people even believe Justin Bieber is a star.

I haven't really heard about people thinking sundogs are Niburu. You must hang out with some complete freaks! :-P

Dumpster Diver
2nd March 2018, 12:46
Hmm well I don't really know what to think about sceptics. :-P

Some people even believe Justin Bieber is a star.


...it gets worse, some folks even think he can sing! :hilarious:

Aragorn
2nd March 2018, 12:48
Aragon I just knew you would say it's Nibiru. ;-)

See farther down in this reply. ;)


It was the moon--I saw it with my own eyes......oh wait.....I'm not to believe my own eyes....hmmmmm??

Well, whether it was the sun or the moon, it doesn't matter. The effect you saw was caused by a combination of atmospheric lensing and a thick, almost opaque fog. ;)


I take it you also see the exhaust trails left by airplanes?

Yes, both types, i.e. the benign contrails caused by condensation behind the engine exhausts — that was quite a common sight when I was still a very young boy — and the less benign chemtrails, where they are spraying things that look like contrails but which don't dissipate quite as rapidly, and which stay up in the sky even after the plane itself has already long disappeared from sight.





Hmm well I don't really know what to think about sceptics. :-P

Some people even believe Justin Bieber is a star.

Nah, not even an asteroid. A meteorite at most. :p


I haven't really heard about people thinking sundogs are Niburu. You must hang out with some complete freaks! :-P

Take a good look around here at the forum. There are ample threads about that subject, illustrated with lots of YouTube videos from people who all seem to have skipped their high school science classes. Or maybe their schools never provided for any science classes in the first place. ;)

Dumpster Diver
2nd March 2018, 12:51
Aragon I just knew you would say it's Nibiru. ;-) It was the moon--I saw it with my own eyes......oh wait.....I'm not to believe my own eyes....hmmmmm?? I take it you also see the exhaust trails left by airplanes?

...oops, a mispelling...His name is Argon...just ask the very missed Gio.

Onthebit
3rd March 2018, 00:01
Aragorn. sorry....must have been thinking arrogant-:winner: So you would tend to agree the persistent trails left by some airplanes which are conveniently left out of any climate reparation talks, might have something to do with the rash of rare sky phenomena?

Aragorn
3rd March 2018, 12:30
Aragorn. sorry....must have been thinking arrogant-:winner: So you would tend to agree the persistent trails left by some airplanes which are conveniently left out of any climate reparation talks, might have something to do with the rash of rare sky phenomena?

With rare sky phenomena, and with the localized death of vegetation, and possibly the death of entire schools of fish, and so on, yes.

Chemtrails do have a way of dissipating in a manner that leaves a series of streaks of dirty-looking haze across the sky. You can see this on clear days. Regular contrails dissipate differently. They just evaporate, and while the plane is still visible. Chemtrails stick around much longer as the chemicals slowly drop down to the ground from high altitude.