Few realize, even in this land where clear skies are not infrequent, how many heavenly sights there are that are worth seeing. How many of your readers have seen a Mock Sunset? Last summer T had the privilege of seeing two in the course of five days. For those who may not know for what to look, I may as well mention that a Mock Sunset is the appearance of the eastern sky as if the sun had set in the east. Great streamers of pink and other lights radiate from 'a point below the horizon right across the heavens, and it is hard to believe that the sun itself is not just there below the horizon. As the sun sinks further in the west the radial point of the beams of light in the east also sinks further below the horizon, meanwhile the intensity of the light fades as it ought to do. I believe the angle of this radial point below the horizon corresponds exactly with that of the sun, The whole effect is due to reflexion, but the strange thing is that the western sky is featureless, and what appears in the east is not what is visible to the observer when looking at the west.
The finest Mock Sunset I have seen was on the China Sea, when proaching Hongkong.
They usually portend a typhoon.
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