Hello Astronomy Friends and Paul T. Morrrison, All my photos from after the peak of the eclipse (around 3:05) have beautiful violet or green crescents, and swirly aurora borealis-like colors in the clouds around the sun. Even a bird that flew through the scene has a rainbow light shining through its wings. I wonder why is this? Thank you if you can help.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYEfrG6Fh1q/
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The bird is blurry, but you can see the rainbow effect.
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Good Morning Gloucester 
The visible spectrum of the sun is strongest in the blue green region. However its black body radiation ranges across the visible range and above and below. The colors we see are greatly modified by both the atmosphere and our detectors. For example blue light tends to be greatly scattered by the atmosphere so the red comes through and the sky looks blue. If you looked at the sun from above the atmosphere, it would look white because all three of your color cone receptors would be saturated by all the visible frequencies in the signal. As you filter it through the atmosphere, blue is scattered and other colors are filtered out to an extent governed by the intensity at our level. During an eclipse the intensity levels are quite different and we may see very different colors with our detectors. The green being strongest may come through better. You might want to look at this: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/what-color-sun
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Yes I will visit that website, thank you Damon!
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No way am I coming up with an explanation but possibly an explanation why it is weird/not weird. It’s not for nothing that NASA goes full tilt when something like a full eclipse shows up. One can see stuff that is normally very hard to see.
Gloucester had a view through low dissipating clouds with a dash of fog during the partial eclipse. The combo may have never been seen before. So the effect of blocking certain wavelengths, accentuating others could occur.
A careful googling might find the NASA paper that explains what you saw. They might also explain that we might never see it again unless a partial eclipse above a seaside community with light and low hanging fog occurs again.
So don’t delete any photos.
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I won’t delete, thank you Paul 🙂
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I read smoke too, from wild fires in Canada.
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Wow, amazing photos and interested in the explanations as well, thanks!!
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