Timeline for What is this shadow being cast upon?
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| S Mar 31, 2019 at 10:15 | history | suggested | xray0 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | grammar fix |
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| Jun 29, 2016 at 5:15 | comment | added | N. Virgo | Technically they are anticrepuscular rays. | |
| Jun 29, 2016 at 3:05 | comment | added | anna v | @senshin It is in the sense that it is not a point source. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 20:20 | comment | added | senshin | "The finite size of the sun..." - if the sun had infinite extent (say, if it appeared to be an infinite plane), convex objects wouldn't have shadows to begin with, would they? (Or is this supposed to be the "nonzero" sense of "finite"?) | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 18:44 | comment | added | Chris Mueller | It would be more accurate to say that air scatters some of the light rather than reflects it. Some of that scattered light is scattered backwards. The same is true for the twilight effect mentioned by @jpmc26. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 18:16 | comment | added | David Hammen | The sun was behind the questioner. Mountain shadows are anti-crepuscular rays anther than crepuscular rays. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 5:05 | vote | accept | Abe Miessler | ||
| Jun 27, 2016 at 22:37 | comment | added | jpmc26 | Also on the note of air reflecting light: that's what causes the twilight periods. The sun isn't actually visible because it's below the horizon, but the sky is lit up by its light in the upper atmosphere being reflected back down. | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 15:53 | comment | added | corsiKa | Also, Mt. Shasta is HUGE and the area is very flat. You can see it from Klamath Falls, which is over 80 miles away. | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 4:34 | comment | added | Bob Bee | Interesting. The simplest things are often more complicated than you can imagine. Nice answer | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 4:05 | history | edited | anna v | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 462 characters in body |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 3:34 | history | answered | anna v | CC BY-SA 3.0 |