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Blue hour at the Old Cathedral of the Holy Name of Jesus, Bragança in Portugal. The blue hour (from French l'heure bleue; [1] [a] pronounced [lœʁ blø]) is the period of twilight (in the morning or evening, around the nautical stage) when the Sun is at a significant depth below the horizon.
In the first case, the Sun has just set but still illuminates the upper atmosphere directly. Because the amount of scattered sunlight is proportional to the number of scatterers (i.e. air molecules) in the line of sight, the intensity of this light decreases rapidly as the Sun drops further below the horizon and illuminates less of the atmosphere.
But as the sun rises in the sky, the arc grows smaller and ceases to be visible when the sun is more than 42° above the horizon. To see more than a semicircular bow, an observer would have to be able to look down on the drops, say from an airplane or a mountaintop. Rainbows are most common during afternoon rain showers in summer. [34]
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Brightest sunlight Luminance. This section lists examples of luminances, measured in candelas per square metre and grouped by order of magnitude. Factor
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Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. On Earth, ...