Comments on: Beautiful lunar eclipse light show

By: vertical beam

vertical beam — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:26:54 +0000

[...] the … screen, the electron beam is deflected in the vertical and horizontal directions either …Vertical light beams seen at night | Natureguy Studio …Photos of unusual vertical light beaming seen due to city lights reflecting off of ice crystals [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:12:00 +0000

I was actually just googling this because I saw the exact same thing from up here in Canada last night. Only I called a few friends and told them to look outside. Nobody else could see them but me.
Consider yourself lucky you saw such a beautiful phenomonen. Ive never in my life seen it before.
Thanks for posting your beautiful photos.

By: Bruce Rutkoski (Natureguy)

Bruce Rutkoski (Natureguy) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:58:00 +0000

Thanks Kat. That is a very plausible explanation for what I saw as there was snowfall soon after the photos where taken, and there could well have been some snow aloft ahead of the clouds. The lights on the southern horizon where I live could have been from beaming lights from an interstate. Shoot, that takes away from my feeling of how neat it was to see.

By: kat

kat — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:19:00 +0000

Hi there
Was just seeing the exact same thing over Anchorage tonight, and decided to find out what it was -it is not caused by the eclipse, but from ice crystals in the air reflecting the city(?) lights. here is a good link to an more thorough explanation: http://sgforums.com/forums/1902/topics/118572?page=23
Kind regards
K. Turner