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I have captured today’s spectacular sunrise on Gavà beach for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos, with beautiful twilight rays giving a touch of magic in the sky.
As can be seen in the images, the crepuscular rays manage to filter through the clouds at dawn, creating a beautiful phenomenon worth contemplating.
Crepuscular rays, in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky. We see in these images how they are projected onto Gavà beach, on the Baix Llobregat coast.
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. Not in vain does crepuscular come from the Latin word crepusculum, which means “twilight.”
In this last photograph we also see two other phenomena: a solar pillar reflected in the waters of the Mediterranean and the sun with a halo around it.