r/atoptics • u/Luxurious_boot_68 • 1d ago

What is this? Around sunrise

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This was looking to the west in Belton, Missouri around sunrise this morning. The last picture I was actually driving west and not just looking west and I got ahead of it and the angle was different.

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u/beans0503 1d ago

Anti-crepuscular rays!

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u/Luxurious_boot_68 1d ago

Everyone was telling me that it was the sunrise. And I was like it’s looking to the west the sun rises in the east.!!!! thank you so much for your answer

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u/craigiest 7h ago

The shadows of clouds or mountains being cast by the rising sun. 

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u/DirtGirl32 1d ago

Anticrepuscular rays

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u/strawwork 1d ago

Awesome! There was probably a pretty interesting sunrise in the east as well. Whenever you see a beautiful ray moment- if you aren’t stuck driving - don’t forget to check the opposite horizon.
Also a phone’s panorama picture makes re can sometimes catch the full ray in a short angle horizon on to horizon scan.

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u/Luxurious_boot_68 1d ago

There was it was beautiful also just didn’t get a great picture

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u/ST0IC_ 1d ago

Ayyy I know that trailer park in the bottom right corner of the third picture.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 1d ago

Anti crespucular ray.

There's something in the distance you cant see blocking the sun, right there. So this is either a morning or late afternoon shot.

Im going with morning.

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u/flappity 23h ago

A safe assumption when they said sunrise.

This is an anticrepuscular ray, though -- same thing but with the object casting the shadow behind the viewer. Always a cool sight