Talk:Glory (optical phenomenon)

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A note[edit]

What is the difference between glory and heiligenschein? --Abdull 13:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does this explain the bright spot in so many moon landing images?[edit]

It would be great if someone 'in the know' could add facts about this. Capeyork 03:45, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No. That is heiligenschein, a well-understood effect. Maproom (talk) 07:06, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

TOC[edit]

Any particular reason the table of contents is nested right? That seems very strange to me and I am planning on moving it to the canonical position, but I will wait a day or so; if there is a particular reason it is being put in this strange spot, please let me know. —Politizer^{( talk • contribs )} 14:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

potential resource[edit]

From Talk:Meteorology#not sure where is may go ... "The Science of the Glory; One of the most beautiful phenomena in meteorology has a surprisingly subtle explanation. Its study also helps to predict the role that clouds will play in climate change" by H. Moysés Nussenzveig Scientific American January 5, 2012 (1.2012,page 68 to 73 in-print)

See global warming and Climate change mitigation.

Of interest maybe the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System. 99.181.147.68 (talk) 04:18, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

a video[edit]

This video shows how the size of the glory stay constant when the shadow move farther away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xO3s4tNM4 50.136.153.214 (talk) 20:06, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Incorrect explanation[edit]

The article explains a glory in terms of diffraction around the airplane; this is incorrect as the airplane is far too large to be relevant in diffractive effects. The citations given do not make any connection of diffraction around the observer; the diffraction is by water droplets in the cloud. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timrb (talk • contribs) 01:42, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Astrophysics use[edit]

I just came across this phrase in a recent paper. "We show that observed properties of the low luminosity GRB171205A and its afterglow, like those of most other low-luminosity gamma ray bursts (LL-GRBs), indicate that it is an ordinary SN-GRB, which was produced by inverse Compton scattering of glory light by a highly relativistic narrowly collimated jet ejected in supernova (SN) explosion and viewed from a far-off axis angle." (https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09319 "Origin Of The Far Off-Axis GRB171205A" by Shlomo Dado, Arnon Dar, no indication at this time of where/ if submitted for peer review and/ or formal publication).

I can see where and why they're describing the GRB (Gamma Ray Burst) emission as a "glory", though the details are beyond my physics and maths. But it seems that at least some astrophysicists are co-opting the term to their field, and if there are more examples, another section will be needed for the main article.

AKarley (talk) 00:54, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]