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Red Sky At Night...

September 2014, and the Holuhraun eruption of Bárðarbunga is well under way. We stopped for the night at a farm to the south of Vatnajökull glacier, and the eruption plume filled the sky.

At 18:45 when the sun set, the afterglow caused by volcanic ejecta - oxides of sulphur and thin clouds of tiny sulphuric acid droplets lofted into the stratosphere - yielded lurid but beautiful colours.

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A photo of a mountain range, with the surface of a glacier smoothing the areas between the peaks. Three ice tongues can be seen dropping to ground level. The foreground is brown vegetation and farm fences. The sky is full of odd streaked shapes, not quite cloud as you would expect to see it but vog from an eruption. This gas and vapour is being coloured by the sunset to strong orange and bluish-grey, while the horizon line to the left is a bright yellow patch and to the right is a strangely layered orange and grey region. It's quite otherworldly.
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Hey Mo 🤗🥰
Hope you you’re having a good day sweetie & thanks for sharing that glorious shot!

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