anticrepuscular rays
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anticrepuscular rays
[¦an·tē·kri′pəs·kyə·lər ′rāz] (astronomy)
Extensions of crepuscular rays, converging toward a point 180° from the sun.
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anticrepuscular rays were captured by Yuh-Tsuen Li of Taiwan in a very wide-angle photograph taken at Taipei Observatory on September 3, 1994.
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