Comments by "Smaakjeks K" (@smaakjeks) on "Bee Stings Human and then Apologizes" video.

  1. You are correct. The phenomenon is called heiligenschein.
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  2. 1:31 - this is called heiligenschein. To quote wikipedia: It is an optical phenomenon in which a bright spot appears around the shadow of the viewer's head in the presence of dew. Nearly spherical dew droplets act as lenses to focus the light onto the surface behind them. When this light scatters or reflects off that surface, the same lens re-focuses that light into the direction from which it came. This configuration is sometimes called a cat's eye retroreflector. Any retroreflective surface is brightest around the antisolar point. Since the shadow of your own head is closest to the antisolar point for your eyes, the brightness is most intense around that.
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