Abstract
As the green segment continues to be debated, permit me to put a few facts on record. I have often in Egypt watched the sunrise light descending the western hills, and when the edge of the shadow reached me, turned to view the sun. The first appearance of the sun is a blue segment, changing to green, and then to white. This is exactly the converse of the colours of the sunset segment; as the rising light cannot be due to an after-image, no more is the setting light. Moreover I have never seen the green light shift about, as an after-image does, by movement of the eye; it is always exactly on the segment.
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PETRIE, W. The Green Raylat Sunset and Sunrise. Nature 110, 604–605 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110604c0
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