Category：Popular Science

Cloud and Atmospheric Optics Atlas 天空大图鉴

By JI Yun, ZHANG Chaos, WANG Chen

l High quality images cover almost all known sky landscapes, including rare and first-published ones

This book is an encyclopedia of the sky. The book explains almost all known clouds and atmospheric optical phenomena (such as rainbow types, treasure light types, ice halo types, mirage types, electric light types, the colors and lights and shadows of the sky) in chapters.
Readers can see the colorful clouds, the romantic and beautiful rainbows, the mysterious and holy treasure lights, the everchanging ice halos, the rare mirages, the shocking electric lights (such as lightning, etc.), and the colorful colors and lights and shadows of the sky.

This book selected representative photographic pictures from thousands of celestial image libraries accumulated over ten years, and many of the pictures are the only one in this field, which is very precious.

Author
JI Yun, One of the three founders of the Chinese astronomical enthusiasts community, and the proposer of the “Chinese Astronomical Real-time Information Exchange Mechanism. ” A science popularizer and nature photographer focusing on astronomical popularization. With approximately 400,000 followers on his personal Sina Weibo account. His science popularization articles have accumulated over 1 billion views. Solver of the “Fourth and Fifth Lowitz” ice halo puzzle that has puzzled scholars worldwide for over 20 years. Discoverer of the Alternate Lowitz ice crystal orientation. The first official recorder of China’s rough-face clouds.