A Beautiful Sunset Picture in the South China Sea.

For an answer to this question, look at the sunset links below.  They show many pictures of this strange phenomena.

Hi ( from a plank owner),   I've had your page bookmarked for a while, but never got through it all, until today.   Nice pics, I wish I had some to offer, but long ago, when I was aboard, I was too young to know better.

  I joined the Kitty Hawk, right out of boot camp, in April of 1962,
while she was still being outfitted in the Camden Shipyard, in
Philadelphia.  My post was in CIC as an Air Traffic Controller. Quite a new world for a 17 year old, right out of New York City.   I was the youngest fellow in the U.S. Navy for about 4 months and was even put on a Philly TV show, "Morgan in the Morning", with the oldest, a master Chief with an arm full of hash marks.
   I was on the ship for over a year, traveling initially out and back for ORI inspections, then finally to Norfolk for ammunition loading (stories), then south to Guantanamo and the Caribbean and further around South America, Cape Horn and up the west side, terminating in Oakland, CA.  We crossed the Equator and had the required festivities, also visited 3-4 ports (stories+) in S.A. and always had to stop to show off the weapons and air capability, to the Latin American Generals, who would get flown out to the ship. (Stories)   Left the Hawk in mid 1963 for school on the east coast.  My time aboard the Kitty Hawk was one of
the best in my life.  The Navy was a great place to be,  I'll never
forget any of it.  Thanks for the memories and the great website.

I forgot the reason for writing / The sunset flash is true and is caused when the waning top of the fireball just dips down below the horizon.  If the weather is good and clear and the sea is in the correct state, the ebbing light rays will be magnified by an errant wave and will appear as a  green flash on the horizon.  I've seen this myself, not only at sea.  Thanks again.

Bob Johnstone
Great Falls, VA