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obviously, but together those invisible droplets repainted the sky. Within weeks, observers began reporting strange colors in the heavens, reporting sunsets of burned, crimson, copper, violet, magenta. The second glow sometimes appeared after the sun had already dropped below the horizon. The sun occasionally looked blue or green around the sun. Observer saw a broad ghostly halo that became known as the Bishop's Ring, after the Reverend Serenno Geronow Bishop, who described it from Honolulu. At sunset, the sunlight took a landing path through the atmosphere. Krakatoa's high altitude aerosol scattered that redirected light, allowing it to remain illuminating, even after the sun had set.