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In this series of images in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos, captured from L’Esquirol (Osona), we can contemplate the crepuscular rays at sunset, with clouds, in Pedraforca.
In the photographs we can see several phenomena in the same image, such as the candilazo sky, when the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors, especially the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is soft tones between red and orange.
In a certain way, when this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and could be said to color them with those tones. The candilazo is also known as arrebol, which is the red color seen in clouds illuminated by the sun’s rays, especially at dawn and in the evening.
Additionally, we see what crepuscular rays look like, which, in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky.
These rays flow through openings in clouds (especially stratocumulus) or between other objects. They are columns of sunlit air separated by dark regions of cloud shadow.
The name comes from its frequent appearances during twilight hours (sunrise and sunset), when the contrasts between light and darkness are the most obvious.
On the other hand, we observe Pedraforca, an emblematic mountain of Catalonia, located within the area of ??the Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park and which forms the border between the provinces of Barcelona and Lleida.
It has a very peculiar shape due to its two peaks separated by a large hill, which gives it its name. The northern summit is made up of two peaks: Pollegó Superior (2506 m) next to Calderer (2505 m). The south is made up of the Pollegó Inferior (2445 m).
