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The sunset in Torelló, in Osona, has drawn a curious pyramid in the sky over the mountains, as can be seen in these snapshots in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia.
At sunset, apart from the glare, we can see crepuscular rays, which, in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that seem to radiate from a single point in the sky.
These rays flow through openings in clouds (mostly stratocumulus) or between other objects. They are columns of sunlit air separated by dark cloud shadow regions. In this case, we see side-by-side illumination of a darker area with the shape of a pyramid.
The name comes from its frequent appearances during twilight hours, such as dusk, when the contrasts between light and dark are most obvious. Not in vain crepuscular comes from the Latin word crepusculum which means twilight.
For its part, the candilazo is a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that goes from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of scattering of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closest to the horizon, the light that reaches Earth is soft tones between red and orange.
