Comments on: Sunburst

By: Jim in Alaska

Jim in Alaska — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:56:02 +0000

Uh huh, golden hour, the sun at an altitude of around ten degrees. National Geographic tended to be quite rigid about this, with the photographs they used.

By: fred

fred — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:00:18 +0000

Twilight and early morning/late afternoon are my favorite kinds of daylight anyway. Any photographer will tell you, midday is the worst.

By: Jim in Alaska

Jim in Alaska — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:32:53 +0000

A bit longer, Fred. Has something to do with the arc of the sky covered by the movement of the winter sun & the summer sun. Also there’s quite a bit of twilight giving us something over 5 hours of daylight, if not sunlight.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:27:36 +0000

That sounds beautiful, Jim. The Russians call the long summer nights “white nights”. But does it mean that around the winter solstice the day is only 2 hours long?

By: Jim in Alaska

Jim in Alaska — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:03:31 +0000

Nicely done, Fred. Our day, up here on top of the world, will be just about 22 hours (twix sunrise and sunset) on the solstice.