Lunar green and blue flash

Last week I was out to shoot the moon rise above the mountains, the day after full moon, so the moon was 99% lit at the time. When I got back home and looked through my photos I found that in one of the photos I found some green and blue flashes. I've never seen them above the moon before, only above the Sun. Here's a image sequence I took of green and blue flashes from the Sun - http://blogg.astrofotografen.se/2012/06/gron-blixt.html

Optics Picture of the Day

Today I'm featured as Optics Picture of the Day on Atmospheric Optics with this picture showing upper and lower Moon pillars. This photo is taken on the same night as the previous shot with Mars, Moon and the church, but taken 15 minutes earlier and from a higher point.

Down to the right you can see the same church as in the previous picture and in the middle you can see the newly built skyscraper in Östersund called Fagerskrapan. The bright dot to the left is planet Mars.

Read more about the upper and lower Moon pillars at Atmospheric Optics website - http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz991.htm