Wednesday 22 January 2020

Brocken Spectre at last

I've waited years but finally saw my Brocken Spectre with glory. It was a very small and distant example but I'm ecstatic. Here's how the spectre forms:

The glory is formed by refraction of sunlight in water droplets in the mist which is then sent back in my direction, a phenomenon called backscattering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre