Adonis Karageorgis, a 35-year-old dental student, said he saw the sky light up from his apartment.
Crowds abandon their browsing to step onto the sand and watch the sky light up in blistering reds and oranges.
At about 2145 BST, eyewitnesses reported seeing the sky light up with green flashes at the same time as the four explosions, which were thought to be stun grenades.
Wolinsky, who now runs the photo advice site PixBoomBa.com, tends to shoot city buildings when the natural light in the sky equals the light inside a building (usually around dusk, just as evening lights are turned on).
Already the moon had risen, a flake of waxy alabaster in a blue sky thin with light.
Tholen told CNN there was about a half-hour between when the asteroid got high enough in the sky for the telescope to point at it and before the sky became too light to observe it.
Recently designated a Dark Sky Reserve for its lack of light pollution and the exceptional quality of its night sky, Iveragh is one of only seven such reserves in the world and the first in the northern hemisphere to get gold-tier status, the highest possible grading issued by the International Dark-Sky Association.
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As the cometary "grit" from Swift-Tuttle strikes our atmosphere, it burns up, often creating streaks of light across the sky.
Excavation began at six-thirty every morning, when there was still pink light in the sky and a chill in the air.
The light in the sky turns just the warmest color, orange, or even red, and then there's, you know, certain blue hues, and it's just an extraordinarily beautiful time of evening.
White apple blossoms had begun to appear in the old tree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.
As if to spite me, the sky was blue, and the light was too brilliant.
The colour of the sea changes as the light advances up the sky.
The now moonless sky was drenched with bursts of light from big lamps.
For long minutes, she would stare as the colors faded and a glassy light emerged from the sky and from the Scotch pines surrounding the house.
The sun is a pale smudge in the sky, a pinhole promise of light and warmth, as we lurch and bump across the frozen land in pursuit.
With the London Philharmonic providing the audio backdrop, lasers are to light up the night sky, beaming across town to touch several landmarks: the London Eye, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge.
Yet taken together it forms a fascinating survey of the ways different artists have responded to the same set of givens: the land, the ocean, the dome of sky above and the uniquely glimmering light.
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"I was smoking outside the door when I looked up at the sky and suddenly the sky lit up with a bright light and something that looked like the sun fell somewhere to the south of Yekaterinburg, " wrote Sergei Bobunets, quoted by AFP news agency.
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The observatory, which is named after the physicist who discovered the showers caused by cosmic rays, has 1, 600 detectors on the ground to record the arrival of such cascades and 24 telescopes pointing at the sky to locate the flashes of light produced by the collisions that create them.
Meanwhile, the blue gantries, now a symbol of people power, still merrily light up the Gauteng night sky.
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The evening sky was pale and empty and the light from the kitchen window made a yellow square reflection in the darkening yard.
But it is at night that the mosque glows - its 82 domes light up like dozens of bright light bulbs in the dark sky.
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In a recent shopping study conducted by the Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., and the London Business School, scientists found that when shoppers are asked to make a choice among common and closely related items in a grocery-store-like setting, the areas of the brain involved in memory light up like a nighttime sky filled with fireworks.
The national park applied to the International Dark Sky Association to earn the status, a process that involved having its light pollution levels strictly monitored, and shielding outdoor lighting to make it more dark-sky friendly.
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