A light (or solar) pillar is one of the most frequent species halo. This is a visual atmospheric phenomenon, optical effect, which is a vertical band of light stretching from the sun during its sunset or sunrise. The phenomenon is caused by hexagonal flat or columnar ice crystals with nearly horizontal parallel flat surfaces. Flat crystals suspended in the air cause solar pillars if the sun is at a height of 6 degrees above the horizon or behind it, columnar crystals - if the sun is at a height of 20 degrees above the horizon. Crystals tend to take a horizontal position when falling in the air, and the shape of the light column depends on their relative position.
A light column appears when sunlight from the surfaces of the smallest ice crystals, which are ice plates or rods with a hexagonal cross section, suspended in the air. Such crystals form in high cirrus clouds, most often in cirrostratus. At low temperatures similar crystals can also form in the lower layers of the atmosphere. Therefore, light pillars are more often observed in the cold season. When forming a light column, the light is either from the top or bottom surface of the ice plate, or from the ends or faces of the ice rod.
IN rare cases the light column may be accompanied by the so-called parhelic circle. It is a bright band that is visible in the sky at the same height as the Sun. At favorable conditions it constitutes a vicious circle passing through the Sun and false Suns.
Light pillars often form around the moon, city lights, and other bright light sources. Pillars emanating from low-lying light sources are usually much longer than solar or lunar pillars. The closer the observer is to the light column, the less the location of the crystals in space affects appearance pillar.
By ancient legend a person who sees a pillar of light will gain untold wealth and happiness. After all, now he was chosen, and a divine sign appeared to him.
Some particularly skeptical observers do not see both mystical and natural root causes in the phenomenon, considering the light pillars to be the rays of ordinary searchlights.
With the rise of UFO stories and the rise of the ufology craze, the phenomenon has been linked to the long-awaited arrival space aliens. But if you happen to see a pillar of light, don't be alarmed! Is not alien ship is trying to draw another victim on board, and the ice particles are completely natural origin reflect the light of the moon or the sun.
A column of light is a cylindrical protective screen that surrounds you from all sides. white light, whose diameter is about three meters. This light flows from above downwards from God and your I AM THAT I AM, embracing your entire form and descending below the level of your feet.
As you read the Pillar of Light Decree, visualize a dazzling white light emanating from your I AM PRESENCE, a light that surpasses the brightness of the sun on freshly fallen snow and forms a wall of light impenetrable from all sides around you. Within this radiant Pillar of Light, you see yourself standing in PURPLE FLAME.
During the day, you can strengthen this spiritual protection by repeating the decree and visualizing the Pillar of Light.
This decree is recommended to be read in the morning. According to Saint Germain: “... the Pillar of Light has an invincible power. Strengthen it after being among the a large number people or in the world of trade. Restore this fire!"
The Pillar of Light protects you from destructive energies directed at you: anger, condemnation, hatred, jealousy, etc. If there is no such protection, then destructive energies can make you irritable or depressed, they can even provoke accidents. If you start the day with the command of the Pillar of Light, you will have protection even before any negative energy or attacked. It can be temporarily broken if you allow yourself the emotions of irritation and frustration. Therefore, the Pillar of Light decree is recommended to be read in the morning and throughout the day.
Instructions:
You can use this little decree to approach your I AM Presence and build powerful wall protection around you.
You must read "Pillar of Light" at least, three times at the start of each decree session.
Visualization:
Visualize a fiery, opaque, white pillar of spiritual energy, nine feet in diameter, emanating from your I AM Presence and surrounding you. The pillar blocks all negative energy directed at you. Inside the pillar, the violet flame surrounds you, freeing you from daily burdens.
I AM the Good Presence,
Seal me with a Pillar of Light,
Light that is called by the name of God
From the Ascended Masters of Fire.
May it always keep my temple
From the discord that is sent to me,
Desires to burn and turn
I call in purple fire.
I will cry out in the name of freedom
And then I can become this flame.
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An interesting phenomenon in nature, which is observed quite often, is the emergence of light pillars, as if connecting heaven and earth. Many peoples took their appearance for various omens - both good and ominous.
Someone declared them a manifestation of divine favor, and someone - a threat of severe destruction, pestilence and hunger. What do the light pillars in the sky mean and what is the nature of their occurrence, this article will help you find out.
What is this phenomenon
Light pillars that appear in the sky are completely vertical, brightly shining columns, stretching from the sun (or moon) to the earth or from it to the luminary during sunset or sunrise, that is, when the light source is low, near the horizon. You can see them above or below the sun (moon), it all depends on the location of the observer. The color of the column is identical to the shade of the luminary at this moment: if it is yellow, then the phenomenon is the same.
How scientists interpret
Light pillars are a very common variant of a halo - the so-called optical phenomenon that appears under certain conditions around a light source. When you first see this phenomenon, it is hard to believe in nature its origin - so clearly the resemblance to the beams of a searchlight.
In fact, the light of the sun (or moon) interacts with the ice crystals formed in it, which reflect it. Such an explanation is too simple, it characterizes the mechanism of the appearance of the phenomenon, but does not clarify the conditions under which the emergence of light pillars becomes possible. Let's figure out under what circumstances this phenomenon occurs and what it means.
Light pillars: how they arise, why we see them
Most often, such optical effects appear in the cold season. This is due to the fact that for the occurrence of a column in ice crystals must form, and the sun must be low enough. At low air temperatures in the atmosphere, many hexagonal ice crystals are formed that can reflect light rays. But it is not uncommon for a similar effect to occur in the warmer season. This can occur during the period when cirrus clouds are observed in the sky - pillar-shaped hexagonal ice crystals are also formed in them.
Solar or lunar rays, bursting into the atmosphere at a speed of over 300 thousand km per second, collide with ice crystals suspended in the air. It is this circumstance that is fundamental for the appearance of a halo. The play of light with these ice floes allows you to observe a stunning phenomenon that forms at an altitude of about 8 km.
In frost, ice crystals form much lower, and thanks to this, the light pillars (the photo is presented in the article) have very clear contours and are visually perceived better. The spectacle is amazing - beautiful and exciting.
The formation of the phenomenon
Scientists trace several options for the formation of an optical effect, depending on the shape of the crystals and the location of the light source. Light columns appear like this:
- If ice crystals have a flat hexagonal shape, then when they fall, they take a horizontal position, while columnar ones fall in even standing rows. Hanging in the cold air, they act as a prism, refracting the light beam that hits them.
- The reflected light forms a kind of lens that floats in the air and passes a powerful beam through itself.
- Which crystals are involved in creating such an effect (flat or columnar) depends on the location of the luminary at that moment. In a position at an angle of 6˚ to the surface of the earth, these are flat hexagons. If the sun is at an angle of 20˚, then the light column is formed by refraction in columnar crystals.
The phenomenon of artificial origin
So, cold and humidity are the main components in the emergence of favorable conditions for the formation of suspended ice crystals in the Earth's atmosphere, cut from six sides. They can refract light from various sources- both from heavenly and street spotlights or car headlights. The light refracted in them gives a specific effect, which is a sharply defined bright strip perpendicular to the ground. Inhabitants northern cities are witnesses of a rare phenomenon, the name of which is the light forest.
This happens because falling flat hexagonal crystals do not evaporate in winter on the way to the ground due to sub-zero temperatures, but turn into a kind of thick fog that can reflect the light of ground sources and form light pillars, very similar to natural ones. Such beams turn out to be much longer, since the light source is located lower.
Difference from the Northern Lights
The origin of these two is different. auroras- a product of flares when the planet's magnetic field is perturbed by "gusts" solar wind. It is they who, intruding into it, make it glow like the kinescope of a television receiver does. Usually northern lights manifests itself in greenish-lilac flashes on large area vault of heaven.
The mechanism of the formation of light rays is strikingly different, so these optical phenomena should not be confused.
In our publication, the reasons for the occurrence of an amazing optical effect are considered and explanations are given of what the light pillars mean. The photos presented in the article clearly demonstrate the beauty of a rare phenomenon.
Atmospheric optical phenomena amaze the imagination with the beauty and variety of illusions created.
The most spectacular are pillars of light, false suns, fiery crosses, a gloria and a brocken ghost, which are often mistaken by ignorant people for a Miracle or Epiphany.
pillars of light- this is an optical effect, which is a vertical strip of light stretching from bright object down or up.
In terms of physics, the illusion is caused by ice crystals (hexagonal flat or columnar) with almost horizontally parallel flat surfaces. Such crystals form in cirrus clouds, and more often in cirrostratus clouds of the high layers of the atmosphere. But the lower the air temperature, the more possible the formation of a suspension of ice crystals in the lower layers of the atmosphere. Therefore, in winter, the frequency of encounters with this phenomenon is higher. light poles they look like a path of light, only not on the water, but in the sky. Amazing illumination in the sky can be lit not only by the Sun, the Moon, Venus, but also by an ordinary street lamp.
The appearance of a column of light in the sky heralds the emergence of others optical phenomena, which are formed with the help of ice crystals - halo and false suns.
It is extremely rare for a light column to be accompanied by such an illusion as. Ideally, it is a closed circle passing through the Sun.
The play of light (false suns, false moons, fiery crosses, etc.) occurs when the rays of the star hit the edges of ice crystals and are reflected as if in a mirror, or refracted as in a prism.
For example, the appearance in the sky of a light horizontal circle parallel to the horizon is due to the reflection of the sun's rays from the edges of the crystal. This reflection is seen by our eyes, but the image of the Sun is “reproduced” not where it is in reality, but on a line directly extending from the eyes and approximately at the same height as the actual Sun. Many reflections sun rays from the crystals merge, and our eyes see a solid light circle parallel to the horizon.
Appearance fiery cross in the sky, is explained as follows - from the Sun (located low above the horizon or which is a village) a column of light rises high. It intersects with visible part halo circle, and in the sky we see a cross. Often against the background of the sunset, it has a reddish tint.
If the Sun is not high above the horizon, and the ice hexagonal crystals are located vertically in the atmosphere, then the probability of observing false suns in the sky(luminous spots the size of the actual Sun) is large enough.
The above natural phenomena called complex halo, they are quite rare and are under the close supervision of scientists. Their study makes it possible to determine how many ice crystals and water drops are in the clouds, how large the particles that form the atmospheric layers are.
Latin gloria (halo), gave the name to another amazing atmospheric phenomenon – colored rings around the observer's shadow thrown onto a cloud enriched with water droplets. Gloria is compared to a rainbow in miniature. The angular size of the illusion ranges from 5 to 20° and almost always looks like a full circle. Physicists believe that gloria is formed due to the diffraction of light reflected by drops of moisture. To see the gloria, you need a bright source of light and a cloud, for example, on the top of the mountains you can find suitable conditions. Your shadow cast on the cloud will be surrounded by multi-colored rings - gloria. Stunning photo illusions are obtained from the aircraft. If the Sun is located so that the shadow of the plane on the cloud is visible, then it will be surrounded by rainbow rings.
Gloria frequent companion Broken Ghost – optical illusion, named after the mountain Brocken, located in Germany. This is the most high point The Harz mountain range is surrounded by fog 306 days a year. And the Broken ghost itself is a shadow cast on fog or a cloud. The movement of the fog gives the impression that the shadow is moving, even if the person himself is standing still, and the three-dimensionality of the “foggy” shadow does not allow the observer to appreciate it. true size(she seems huge).
Pillars of light over lanterns.
If it's quiet in winter, frosty night you will go out to town square lit by lanterns, and if there are some favorable circumstances, which will be discussed a little later, then perhaps you will be lucky enough to be a witness to a rare spectacular sight: you will see a forest of luminous pillars above the square. The light column stands strictly vertically above each lantern and goes far up. You can go around the lantern from all sides, the light pole will remain in its place.
M. Minnart's book "Light and Color in Nature" briefly talks about this phenomenon. It says that it is observed in Canada and in Russia and that the reason for it is the reflection of light by small ice particles suspended in the air. From this it is still quite a long way to a detailed explanation of the mechanism of the appearance of light pillars.
There is no doubt that small snowflakes or ice flakes in the atmosphere are involved in the creation of light pillars. Snowflakes and ice flakes illuminated by a lantern shine as if they themselves glow. But why is only the pole above the lantern glowing?
By doing a simple experiment, you will see that the appearance of the pillars is due to the stereo effect. You look at the lantern with your right eye closed, and instead of a pillar you see a vertical strip of sparkling snowflakes in the air between the eye and the lantern, but slightly higher than it. You see the same stripe when you look with your left eye closed - these are snowflakes sparkling in another area, namely in the one that is between the right eye and the lantern. Now let's open both eyes: two images, two sparkling strips merge, and you see a light pillar. Already above the lantern. We emphasize once again - this is a kind of optical illusion, you see two different luminous stripes, two different volumes of air with their sparkling particles - one in front of the right eye and the other in front of the left.
Now let's think: why are the sparkling stripes vertical and why do snowflakes sparkle only when they fall into a vertical plane passing through the eye and through the light source? Why are snowflakes not visible outside this plane?
Snowflakes are, as a rule, flat stars: in the center there is a small hexagon, six rays grow from its corners with branches parallel to the edges of the hexagon. Other branches grow from these branches, and as a result, the asterisk can take quite complex shapes. The process of crystallization of moisture comes from the center of the snowflake, and this allows us to understand which intermediate forms takes an asterisk.
IN initial stage ice particles stick to the corners of a regular hexagon and their chains from two adjacent corners grow towards each other. From such chains, a new, geometrically similar, larger hexagon grows, or, in other words, the initially formed hexagon grows.
But then a moment comes when the growing chains do not have time to meet, and new chains are already starting to grow at the corners. And then at the corners microscopic flat ice trees with twigs are obtained, parallel sides hexagon. Further on, new sticks grow on the rays, and the star becomes more and more complex.
If there is little moisture in the atmosphere, the process ends at a relatively early stage and small snowflakes in the form of hexagons and the simplest stars are born in the air. As we shall see later, this is one of the "certain favorable circumstances" necessary for the emergence of light pillars.
Now let's talk about how these tiny snowflakes behave when falling slowly in calm weather.
Strictly speaking, one should study falling snowflakes in real conditions, say, with the help of filming. But, assuming that the behavior of a snowflake is mainly determined by its shape, one can experiment with the model relatively large sizes. The author did such experiments together with the engineer A. A. Borodin, in the experiments models of snowflakes cut out of paper were used. The following results were obtained:
1. "Snowflakes" with two mutually perpendicular axes of symmetry autorotate. Autorotation in aerodynamics is the movement of a body, accompanied by rotation due to interaction with the atmosphere.
3. The greater the elongation of the "snowflake", or the ratio of the larger axis to the smaller one, the faster the rotation is with the same area.
4. Regular hexagons and six-pointed stars rotate around an axis connecting opposite corners and rays. This is how our paper "snowflakes" were autorotated.
The first drawing shows a lantern on a pole and an observer, and it is assumed that the plane of the drawing passes through the center of the luminous part of the lantern (for example, through the center of a ball of white frosted glass) and through the eye of the observer. In the same plane there are four snowflakes - 1, 2, 3, 4. Their axes of rotation are perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, and the snowflakes themselves are shown as short dashes at the moment of their rotation, when the light from the lantern is reflected from the snowflake, as from a mirror , gets into the eye. The four snowflakes shown sparkle twice per revolution, or rather, a little more or less often, as they change their location when falling.
Points 1, 2, 3, 4 with strokes. This is the apparent position of the light points; they create the illusion of a light line. From the position of point 4, it can be seen that the light column may have a section below the lantern, unless it is too illuminated by the direct light of the lantern itself.
Falling and rotating, snowflakes send flashes of light into the eye until they leave the vertical plane "eye - lantern" or until their axis of rotation deviates from the perpendicular to this plane.
The speed of falling snowflakes is small, and angular velocity and hence the number of light bursts per second can be quite large.
The second figure schematically shows how the lamp and the left (l) and right (r) eyes of the observer are located in the plan, as well as several snowflakes that send light flashes towards the observer. For clarity, the diameter of the lantern, and hence the angles, are greatly exaggerated.
This is done in order to show more clearly that the snowflakes that the observer sees are located within certain angles. That is, the observer sees not lines, but luminous stripes, which ultimately create the illusion of light pillars. It is easy to figure out that the number of snowflakes that are between the lantern and the eye and the brilliance of which the observer sees will be the greater, the more anglesαl and αp. You can even calculate the proportion of these visible snowflakes in total number snowflakes falling to the ground in space, which is limited by vertical planes passing through the line, a-l and b-l (for the left eye) and c-p and d-p (for the right eye). This share is quite large, it is approximately equal to (αl + αp): 360.
Can also be counted relative number snowflakes that are outside the angles αl and αp, but nevertheless in a certain position direct the reflected light exactly into the eyes of the observer (the position of the autorotation axis of such a snowflake is marked with the number 5 in the second figure). Calculations show that beyond the angles αl and αp the probability of the existence of snowflakes in such a position is extremely small. That is why the observer sees bright light, reflected by autorotating snowflakes, only within relatively small angles αl and αp sees light pillars.
N. Fadeev
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