By J. Jala | 02:07 PM June 23, 2020
How often do you look up the sky and marvel at its beauty?
For Hiralin Betonio Escabusa, it was that late afternoon when she was given a chance to capture an optical phenomenon.
On Monday night, she posted on her Facebook account some photos and a video of beautiful clouds where stunning rays filled the sky that afternoon.
These are called anticrepuscular rays.
According to NASA, they appear when the actual sunset was occurring in the opposite direction from where the camera was pointing.
In a separate explanation by Earth Science, it says that anticrepuscular rays are spectacular optical phenomena that are quite rare and they require the viewer to have his or her back to the sun or sunset point.
Like crepuscular rays, they are columns of sunlit air streaming through gaps in clouds.
Yet while the former seems to converge from the sun, anticrepuscular rays converge toward the antisolar point – the point in the sky directly opposite the sun – creating some stunning effects.
