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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whiskeyman" data-source="post: 767450" data-attributes="member: 13556">At least you took high school physics.  I once read that well over 95% of high school graduates/attendees never took a class in physics.  The same for advanced math.  That you know of the term Rayleigh Scattering is a complimentary comment to your educational achievements.The reason that illuminated celestial bodies appear redder at and near the horizon has to do with the wavelengths of light rays passing through the Earth's atmosphere and the size of the molecules making up the atmosphere.  The atmosphere's molecules are of a size that they scatter/reflect the shorter wavelength light rays that appear blue and violet to us more than those which are longer wavelengths and appear as red.  As the light rays must travel through much more atmosphere when the image is at or near the horizon than when the image is higher in the sky, more of the shorter wavelength photons are scattered and don't reach our eyes or camera sensors.  The red appearing wavelengths are less affected and more of these photons reach us, causing the image of the object to appear even more red.  When there is small particulate suspension in the sky, often even more blue light is scattered.  Although more red may be scattered and reflected, it is still to a lesser extent,  causing even more of the sky to appear in a reddish hue.And to keep at the theme of this thread, I recently added the following equipment to my stable of accessories: Mag Mod Widlife Kit.  [ATTACH]362901[/ATTACH]Now I must figure how to store and travel with it and also keep it away from my storage media since it's got a set of fairly strong magnets associated with it.  It won't do much good to have well-illuminated subjects in my photos if the photos are damaged by magnetic fields from the Mag Mod!WM</blockquote>

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