Fantastic colors!
That's a gorgeous "Moon reddening sequence", as the Moon is seen to sink - vertically! - towards the horizon through thicker and thicker layers of atmosphere (and likely clouds). It is, in a way, a picture-perfect illustration of why stars get reddened when there is interstellar dust between us and them.
Of course, the color of the plankton is just jaw-dropping. Particularly when you consider the contrast between the ochre-colored sand, the strikingly cyan-green ocean and the "neon blue" plankton.
I have been swimming in bioluminescent plankton myself, off the coast of Gothenburg at 57o north, but it wasn't as neon blue as the it is in the APOD. It was more blue-white. The video below shows bioluminescent plankton off the coast of Strömstad, at latitude 56.58o north:
Ann
That's a gorgeous "Moon reddening sequence", as the Moon is seen to sink - vertically! - towards the horizon through thicker and thicker layers of atmosphere (and likely clouds). It is, in a way, a picture-perfect illustration of why stars get reddened when there is interstellar dust between us and them.
Of course, the color of the plankton is just jaw-dropping. Particularly when you consider the contrast between the ochre-colored sand, the strikingly cyan-green ocean and the "neon blue" plankton.
I have been swimming in bioluminescent plankton myself, off the coast of Gothenburg at 57o north, but it wasn't as neon blue as the it is in the APOD. It was more blue-white. The video below shows bioluminescent plankton off the coast of Strömstad, at latitude 56.58o north:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Ann
Statistics: Posted by Ann — Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:23 am — Replies 1 — Views 320