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YOUR correspondents (vol. xli. pp. 495, 538) seem to imply that this phenomenon is only seen at sea, but I observed it on May 17 while walking from east to west, near Worms Heath (Warlingham, Surrey). It had been an exceptionally fine day, since the morning, and about 8 p. m. there was not a cloud in the sky, except to westward, where strips of cloud were rapidly forming, and covering up the glow of sunset; the sun had sunk behind a hill, when, suddenly, my companion and I both saw a flash of green light against the thickest cloud; it lasted 1 or 2 seconds, just long enough for there to be no doubt about it. We compared it to the glare thrown by “green fire,” extending over an area whose diameter appeared about four times that of the moon.
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DUKES, T. The Green Flash at Sunset. Nature 42, 127 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042127a0
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