₦airaland Forum

ghettochild:
You are just been stubborn.....
Did u know as early as 5am we experience sunlight here in South Africa at certain periods of the year esp around December....
So if we are experiencing that..
Do u know other parts of the world that would have seen the sun rise before us..
Do u remember how Australia n other islands around it experience new year before every other country..
This us stubbornness na academic stubborness..
And I think u shd talk to a professor to help tell what exactly it was in the sky as at that very time.

Well, the sun doesn’t show up here until around 8:00am. Can you see why you cannot use SA climate to explain Nigeria’s climate?
I am well aware of midnight sun that occur in the far northern and southern pole and I understand the phenomenon. We are on the equator while you’re close to the south pole. Everybody knows what a sunset looks like. This is obviously not sunset.
I promise you 99% of Nigerians haven’t observed anything like this.
I am not the stubborn one. LOL.

ghettochild:
If the sun isn't setting on ur side of the world
It's setting on the other side of the world..
I don't know any other explanations to give..
I tried sending pics but I don't know why....it's not loading up on here.

The Raleigh scattering will be observed where the sun is setting, not the other side of the world. I can assure you that is not a direct effect of the sunlight.

I just checked the lunar calendar for 2023 and it looks like we are in the period of the full moon. It's hard to tell because the sky is cloudy at night.

There is a good chance it is the moon behind the cloud since there is no other light source elsewhere in the sky.

Why the moonlight is red instead of white is what I don't know. Apparently, it's not a lunar eclipse.

It could be light scattering by air pollution but the source of such pollutions are usually dust particles from volcanic eruptions or large-scale fires but such things are far from this area.

ghettochild:
Omo I don try taya...to post it with pictures...e no go ooo..
I don't know why.
It's called a Raleigh scaterring n still has to do with sunset like I said earlier

No, Raleigh and Mie scaterring are used to explain why the sky is blue during the day or sometimes red-ish during sunset.
Raleigh scaterring in the sky is caused by sunlight.

Mind you this is not a regular occurrence here and I don't know anybody that have seen it before. It occurred 3:00 am in the absence of sunlight and doesn't look like Raleigh scaterring.

ghettochild:
Well it's a natural phenomenon...and I have forgotten the name for it sha...

Of course.
It's the name/explanation I seek.

I would have concluded it is lunar eclipse behind the clouds but the last lunar eclipse that occured was November 8, 2022 and the next one is March 13/14, 2025.

ghettochild:
Saw it here too in South Africa...
It's not a big deal.
It's the sun setting..

The sun sets in the west. I saw the glow a little bit eastward the middle of the sky around 3:00 AM in the midnight and I observed it periodically for about 2 hours. I wasn't watching when it disappeared but It was no longer there when I checked in the morning.

Definitely not a sunset.

I came out around 3 am in the midnight to get something in my car when I saw this red glow in the night sky.
I live in Osogbo, Osun state.

Funny, I had a nightmare about the planet destruction and world coming to an end just yesterday.

It was cloudy and I couldn't see what is behind the cloud. Maybe a comet or some chemical reactions.

Can anybody explain this phenomenom?


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