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Atmospheric Optics

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Green laser beam shooting straight up from a red building with a dome on its roof at night, a faint green aurora band across the starry sky and snowy mountains behind. — Revealing the secrets of Arctic sky Konstantina Nakoudi

Soft, blurred band of grey-blue clouds stretched low over a flat blue sea, with a pale yellow glow of light in the upper left of the sky. — Beyond Blue: Ocean and Atmospheric Interactions Mark McCaffrey

Close-up of a clear glass dome on a metal instrument housing, with a hazy sun and pale clouds seen through and reflected in the dome above a blurred skyline. — Early morning light at Manchester surface radiation monitoring station Andy Smedley

Double rainbow arcing across a dark grey sky above house roofs, the band of sky between the bright inner bow and the fainter outer bow darker than the rest. — Double rainbow with Alexander's band in-between Konstantinos Kourtidis

Large faint halo arching around the sun low over a dark sea, with streaks of thin cloud radiating outwards and an orange glow along the horizon. — Halo Tatiana Matveeva

Dark storm cloud over a muted green sky at sunset, its ragged edges and smaller clouds lit orange, with faint rays of light and a low bank of cloud with a glowing rim at the bottom. — Sunset Konstantinos Kourtidis

Pale rays of light fanning upwards across a blue-grey evening sky from behind a dark bank of cumulus clouds, the hidden sun glowing through a gap at the bottom. — Crepuscular rays Konstantinos Kourtidis

Golden sunset light reflecting off a wide bay, with dark coastline and shallow lagoons in the foreground and streaks of light on the water near the horizon. — Thermaikos Bay Konstantinos Kourtidis

Rippled water glowing orange and pink with reflected sunset light, with dark wavy reflections of trees and a strip of grey wet sand at the top. — Sunset on the water Konstantinos Kourtidis

Small patch of rainbow colours, a sun dog, glowing in thin cloud to the right of a bright hazy sky, with white clouds, blue sky above and the dark silhouette of a tree below. — Parhelion Konstantinos Kourtidis

Black-and-white single colour band version of a rainbow arc across a grey sky, showing a bright main band with two or three faint, narrower parallel bands along its inner edge. — Supernumerary rainbows Konstantinos Kourtidis

Rainbow arc crossing a pale grey-blue sky diagonally, its red, yellow and green bands followed on the inner side by faint, narrow pastel pink and green bands. — Supernumerary rainbows Konstantinos Kourtidis

Double rainbow arching across a dark grey sky, a bright primary bow below a faint secondary bow, with the darker Alexander's band between them, above trees, white houses and a power line. — Double rainbow with Alexander's band Konstantinos Kourtidis

Crepuscular rays fanning upward in pale blue streaks from behind a bright-edged cumulus cloud, above a dark tree, a utility pole and power lines. — Crepuscular rays Konstantinos Kourtidis

Fiery orange sunset glowing through ragged dark clouds below a black sky, above silhouetted hills and a lone tree. — Sunset Konstantinos Kourtidis

Glowing violet laboratory scene: a small metal sphere on a stand lit by two bright rings of light near its top and bottom, set in a purple haze, with the edge of a larger sphere at the right. — Auroral ovals in the Planeterrella David Bernard

Two metal spheres glowing in the dark: a large one wrapped in a violet halo and a small one with a pink band of light around its middle, joined by a curved reddish glow between them. — Magnetic interaction David Bernard

Large sphere glowing with a pink and violet halo and tiny sparkling points on its surface, darker at the top left, with a smaller sphere behind it glowing pink at its top, in darkness. — Solar corona and Polar cusp on the Planeterrella David Bernard

Video of a pale green sandy sea floor seen through shallow water, criss-crossed by a net of bright wavy lines of sunlight. — Refractive caustic network Konstantinos Kourtidis

Large circular halo arching across a blue morning sky around the low sun, with a vertical light pillar, above bare trees, flagpoles and a snowy field. — Halo Farahnaz Khosrawi

Close-up of water pouring from a dark metal spout, the clear stream reflecting swirls of blue, green, red and orange from blurred colourful surroundings. — Water or new iridescent fluid? Alessandro Arato

Pale ring of light circling a hazy sun in a grey, streaky overcast sky, above a flat dark coastline with a large cylindrical tank in silhouette in the foreground. — Halo over the Kara Sea coast Nikita Kopa-Ovdienko

Silhouette of an ornate iron street lamp against a pale blue sky framed by bare tree branches, with a faint rainbow-coloured arc of light above the bright sun. — Brilliant phenomena János Tordai

Clear sky fading from deep blue overhead to golden orange at the horizon, above a dark flat layer of clouds seen from high above. — After sunset, from airplane Konstantinos Kourtidis

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