{"id":6794,"date":"2011-12-03T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2016-10-05T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T01:02:11","slug":"postcard-from-the-hawaii-green-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6794","title":{"rendered":"Green Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful evening as I drove home from work. The clear air allowing appreciation of all five volcanoes that loom over South Kohala. Indeed, the horizon was completely clear, the island of Kaho\u02bbolwe visible over 60 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>As I drove I noted the Sun beginning to settle into the distant horizon. At the wheel I couldn&#8217;t look long enough to be certain, but I thought I saw an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/atoptics\/sunmir2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Etruscan vase effect<\/a> as the solar disk made first contact with the horizon. Curiosity peaked, I pulled over to properly watch the end of sunset. A pleasant surprise rewarded my view, a decent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/atoptics\/gf1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">green flash<\/a> was apparent as the last glimmer vanished.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, the camera caught the effect as well. Of the dozens of sunsets I have stopped and watched, this was the best green flash seen yet from such a high elevation. Still, it was modest compared to a couple flashes I have seen from sea level. I can only wonder how good this evening&#8217;s flash was as seen from the shoreline, 2,000 feet below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6795\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6795\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6795\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CE31-89-11335-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Green Flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6795\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A modest green flash as seen from the Mamalahoa Highway outside Waimea, 1 Dec 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful evening as I drove home from work. The clear air allowing appreciation of all five volcanoes that loom over South Kohala. Indeed, the horizon was completely clear, the island of Kaho\u02bbolwe visible over 60 miles away. As I drove I noted the Sun beginning to settle into the distant horizon. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Flash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[764,377],"tags":[765,2101,261],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19695,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions\/19695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}