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Crepuscular Ray

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Anticrepuscular Ray
In rare cases extend across the entire sky and anticrepuscular rays converge at the point opposite the .
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Crepuscular rays of light shining through clouds near the Washington Monument in Washington D.C.

CREPUSCULAR RAYS
Crepuscular rays are shafts of sun rays and shadows that energe from behind puffy cumulus clouds.
A crescent moon is part way between a half moon and a new moon, or between a new moon and a half moon.

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crepuscular rays seen on clouds after sunset. The noun crepesculum was used for twilight in the 17th century. The Latin label 'linea crepusculi' is sometimes found on the line on an astrolabe denoting an altitude of -18º.

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