Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Egypt’s Green Bun Rays. [ARTICLE]

Egypt’s Green Bun Rays.

In Egypt, where the atmosphere is very clear, the green tints of the sum set light are peculiarly distinct. As the sun descends nearer to the horizon, and is immensely enlarged, its rays suddenly become for an Instant of a brilliant green. Then a succession of green rays suffuses the sky well nigh to the zenith, says the Youth’s Companion. The same phenomenon occurs at sunrise, but less conspicuously. Sometimes at sunset. Just as the last portion of the sun’s disk vanishes, its color changes from green to blue, and so also after it has disappeared the sky near the horfeon Is green, while toward the zenith it is blue. The fact was of course observed by the ancient Egyptians, and references thereto are found in their writings.