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Anabasis75@aol.com wrote:
> I've seen many green flashes.  A few years ago I had my camera with  its 8
> frames per second motor drive at the ready for an especially good  one.
> There is a bit of camera shake due to the fact that I was on the ship  and the
> lens was slow, but I was able to capture the sun as it went from yellow  to
> green to blue/violet.  It was the neatest "green flash" that I've  seen.
>
> Saipan was a particularly good place to observe them.  From the  anchorage
> as 3rd mate I would often see them as the sun set.  Near the  Northern
> Solstice the sun rose where I could watch it during the AM hours.   I would often
> see rising green flashes which is a bit more a trick since you  have to be
> looking exactly where the sun will rise at the correct time.
>
> Here are small images of the flashes at sunset.

Jeremy,
Very nice pictures.  I have noticed the violet too but it is even more
rare than the green.

On several occasions while flying in the pacific, I saw the green flash
and tried to "show" my copilot and crew.  Just before the green flash I
 alerted the copilot and crew to watch.  I saw it and they did not.  I
described the phenomenon to them again, climbed up in altitude to the
point where the upper limb was in view again and we could watch the
green flash yet again.  The second time they saw it.  We climbed again
and saw it twice more before calling it quits.  Yes, we started at a low
altitude and had to climb several thousand feet to see the green flash
more than once over the course of 15 minutes.

-Scott

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