A Fata Morgana (Italian: [ˈfaːta morˈɡaːna]) is an unusual and complex form of superior mirage that is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon.
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The optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed.[1] (A thermal inversion is an atmospheric condition where warmer air exists in a well-defined layer above a layer of significantly cooler air. This temperature inversion is the opposite of what is normally the case; air is usually warmer close to the surface, and cooler higher up.)
Although if I'm to be completely honest, this looks more like photoshop than a case of Fata Morgana.
Looming is the most noticeable and most often observed of refraction phenomena.
Most common when a layer of warm air passes over a cold body of water, looming is caused by the refraction of light as it passes through air of different densities. This bends the light, making it appear to the observer that objects on, or below, the horizon are elevated in the air. It can also make them appear much larger.
In this case, that effect is accentuated by the fact that the pictures are close cropped versions of an already heavily zoomed picture.
You know, you guys could've put the image through google search ;P This is pretty old actually.
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/e… morever-seen-a-flying-ship-2014-07-16
The explanation can be found there:
Looming is the most noticeable and most often observed of refraction phenomena.
Most common when a layer of warm air passes over a cold body of water, looming is caused by the refraction of light as it passes through air of different densities. This bends the light, making it appear to the observer that objects on, or below, the horizon are elevated in the air. It can also make them appear much larger.
In this case, that effect is accentuated by the fact that the pictures are close cropped versions of an already heavily zoomed picture.
Source: Wikipedia
A Fata Morgana (Italian: [ˈfaːta morˈɡaːna]) is an unusual and complex form of superior mirage that is seen in a nar… morerow band right above the horizon.
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The optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed.[1] (A thermal inversion is an atmospheric condition where warmer air exists in a well-defined layer above a layer of significantly cooler air. This temperature inversion is the opposite of what is normally the case; air is usually warmer close to the surface, and cooler higher up.)
Although if I'm to be completely honest, this looks more like photoshop than a case of Fata Morgana.
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Yeah, that's an obvious photoshop
Source: Wikipedia
Although if I'm to be completely honest, this looks more like photoshop than a case of Fata Morgana.
An obviously incompetent first attempt at one.
Are you actually falling for this bullshit?
no...was agreeing with you.
Oh shit, sorry, I read it in a wrong way. My apologises
Kenny's dream.
Well, if that's a boat lol
You know, you guys could've put the image through google search ;P This is pretty old actually.
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/ever-seen-a-flying-ship-2014-07-16
The explanation can be found there:
Sorry, I can't trust pictures like this unless they have been taken fron 1900's
Supposedly it is a case of an effect cslled "looming"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looming
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Once I saw double rainbows two days in a row the first had a reversed inner arch and the second one had a purple inner arch
Refraction is cool