Jan 25, 2010: Zodiacal Light
 

Zodiacal Light, sounds like the quickie horoscopes from fortune cookies, or the newspaper's comics page.
Actually, Zodiacal Light is a fancy name for the Sun's tail. :haha:

http://cellar.org/2010/suntail.jpg

See, dirt is good, you clean freaks. :p

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Looks like an egg frying in the sea.

Yes, except the sea is clouds... at about 8,000 ft.

right. hence the "looks like...." :rolleyes:

..it looks like an egg frying in the sea, but actually it's not an egg or the sea. funny business, this

Zodiacal Light? Yeah right. That's just my neighbor's house lit up like the state pen.

Similie win!

FWIW, the zodiacal light is the haze in the sky, not the lights on the ground. :rolleyes:

I thought the ground was the clouds at 8000 feet? Therefore, the egg in the sea is sky.

"The La Silla Observatory is located at the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert, one of the driest and loneliest areas of the world. Like other observatories in this geographical area, La Silla is located far from sources of light pollution and, like the Paranal Observatory, home to the Very Large Telescope, it has one of the darkest night skies on the Earth."

Actually, the egg could be in the sea. La Silla is about 40 miles from the Pacific ocean. Using Google Earth, you can see that the ocean is visible from there.

The yellow fried egg is the sun shining through the clouds from below.

The sun's in the plane of the ecliptic, so it would be co-linear with the zodiacal light. The bright semi-foreground object is not in that plane.

So it must be an egg.

I think it's the lights from the coastal village of Los Choros (29 17' 26"S, 71 18' 34"W) lighting up some fog.

Fire! Fire! [/beavis]