GREEN FLASH AT SUNSET AND PERCEPTION - CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
I had gone to a European yard to take delivery of a Chemical tanker.
Pretty soon everybody out there caught on , that the brown skinned Captain is more perceptive than all of them put together.
In fact they used to open out a compartment to me which all of them ( qualified people with high IQs and experience ) had inspected , split hairs and sanitised it for defects or deficiencies.
And then they would be clean bowled when I just had a quick gander came out and made a exhaustive defect list.
( This was told to me by one of my fans in the yard.)
Initially all of them had a problem accepting this uncomfortable fact-- rather all of them were pissed off..
Later they started enjoying it. ( Read my post THE NAIVE SAILOR , SHIP CONSTRUCTION- VADAKAYIL ) .
Then the question popped-- what was my secret?
Hard pressed , I told them "The secret is that I bathe my pineal gland with a green flash at sunset!"
All of them took it with a pinch of salt.
But then this is what Surya Namaskar is all about.
Punch into Google search SURYA NAMASKAR , THE 11000 YEAR OLD VEDIC SUN SALUTATION- VADAKAYIL.
Of all my posts this is the runaway winner -- the most widely read.
Vedic Agnihotra rituals terminate before the green flash is over. Timing is paramaount , as all cannot see the horizon.
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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I had gone to a European yard to take delivery of a Chemical tanker.
Pretty soon everybody out there caught on , that the brown skinned Captain is more perceptive than all of them put together.
In fact they used to open out a compartment to me which all of them ( qualified people with high IQs and experience ) had inspected , split hairs and sanitised it for defects or deficiencies.
And then they would be clean bowled when I just had a quick gander came out and made a exhaustive defect list.
( This was told to me by one of my fans in the yard.)
Initially all of them had a problem accepting this uncomfortable fact-- rather all of them were pissed off..
Later they started enjoying it. ( Read my post THE NAIVE SAILOR , SHIP CONSTRUCTION- VADAKAYIL ) .
Then the question popped-- what was my secret?
Hard pressed , I told them "The secret is that I bathe my pineal gland with a green flash at sunset!"
All of them took it with a pinch of salt.
But then this is what Surya Namaskar is all about.
Punch into Google search SURYA NAMASKAR , THE 11000 YEAR OLD VEDIC SUN SALUTATION- VADAKAYIL.
Of all my posts this is the runaway winner -- the most widely read.
The green flash is due to refraction of light in the atmosphere. Light moves more slowly in the lower, denser air than in the thinner air above, so sunlight rays follow paths that curve slightly, in the same direction as the curvature of the Earth.
Higher frequency light (green/ blue) curves more than lower frequency light (red /orange), so green/ blue rays from the upper limb of the setting sun remain visible after the red rays are obstructed by the curvature of the earth.
Green flashes are enhanced by atmospheric inversions, which increase the density gradient in the atmosphere, and therefore increase refraction.
A green flash is more likely to be seen in good visibility. We might expect to see a blue flash, but the blue is preferentially scattered out of our line of sight and remaining light ends up looking green.
Vedic Agnihotra rituals terminate before the green flash is over. Timing is paramaount , as all cannot see the horizon.
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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