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Hewitt:

I've seen a great many green flashes, and they are not restricted to the
tropics. The expert is a former editor of Sky and Telescope, whose name
I'll remember sometime, who told me that the best ones he'd seen were in
Arizona. He explained that looking up over a mesa enhances the effect. I
tried his idea, looking up above the mountains on Catalina, and saw a
quite nice one. I asked Mike (I remembered part of his name) if I had
really seen one above a cloud, and he assured me that I had. Bowditch
notes that what's needed to see one is a clear day, a sharp horizon and a
keen observer. Replace "horizon" with an equivalent flat contrasting
something.

I remember sitting on the beach at Moorea, looking west as the sun was
setting, and I told Sibyl that we might see a green flash. She watched
and, sure enough, there was one. Had it not occurred, she might never
have looked again, likening it to the snipe hunt hoax. She's now an
expert, arguing with me about whether the conditions are right to see
one.

Jim Wilson
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