page_title: Sunbeam
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Sunbeam / See also
caption_attribution_description: English: Sun over Lake Hāwea, Otago, New Zealand Español: Rayos crepusculares sobre el lago Hāwea, Otago, Nueva Zelanda. Magyar: Napsugarak a Hawea-tó felett (Otago régió, Új-Zéland) 한국어: 뉴질랜드 오타고 지방 하웨아 호수 위로 비치는 틈새빛살 Македонски: Сончевина над езерото Хавеја во Отаго, Нов Зеланд. Polski: Promienie słoneczne nad&#160;jeziorem Hawea w&#160;regionie Otago, w&#160;Nowej Zelandii. Português: Sol entre nuvens sobre o lago Hāwea, Otago, Nova Zelândia. Nederlands: Wolkenstralen boven het Haweameer in Otago op het Nieuw-Zeelandse Zuidereiland Čeština: Slunce nad jezerem Hāwea v oblasti Otago na novozélandském Jižním ostrově. Эрзянь: Чись Овео эрькенть лангсо, Отаго, Од Зеландия
context_page_description: A sunbeam, in meteorological optics, is a beam of sunlight that appears to radiate from the Sun's position. Shining through openings in clouds or between other objects such as mountains and buildings, these beams of particle-scattered sunlight are separated by darker shadowed volumes. Despite converging toward the light source, the beams are essentially parallel shafts of directly sunlit particles separated by shadowed ones. Their apparent convergence in the sky is a visual illusion from linear perspective. This illusion also causes the apparent convergence of the otherwise parallel lines of a long straight road or hallway at a distant vanishing point. The scattering particles that make sunlight visible may be air molecules or particulates.
context_section_description: Airglow
  Anticrepuscular rays
  Light beam
  Rayleigh scattering
  Tyndall effect
  Volumetric lighting
caption: Sunbeams over Lake Hawea, New Zealand
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