Showing posts with label psychedelic colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychedelic colors. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Psychedelic colors in diamond dust


Occasionally diamond dust glints in pink and and cyan colors. Walt Tape, who saw the effect once in Fairbanks, called it as the psychedelic colors. Here are a couple of photos of one psychedelic case this winter. The image above is a maximum stack of 19 frames with 2.5 and 1 second exposures. Below is a single frame with 2.5 second exposure. And below that a maximum stack of 9 frames with 6 s exposures. Colors have been observed so far only in spotlight displays. How they come about, I don't know. A crystal sample could give some answers.