Showing posts with label dawn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dawn. Show all posts

Monday, July 21, 2025

Light in the sky

I caught these views from the shore a few minutes before dawn.

Discovery Passage/Georgia Strait, 5:15 AM.

Turning a bit to the south, one minute later. 

A Skywatch post.
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Fotos del Estrecho de Georgia, unos cuantos minutos antes del amanecer.
  1. 5:15 AM.
  2. Girando un poco hacia el sur. 5:16 AM.


Saturday, October 22, 2022

Timing the glow

You have to be quick these days.

As the days get shorter, the minutes of orange morning sky dwindle. I see the blaze in my window, run for the camera, pull off the lens cap, ... and the colour is already fading. I timed it this morning; from a pale orange to when there was just a faint tint of creaminess to the blue — 2 minutes.

Civil dawn, the period between the moment the sun reaches 6 degrees below the horizon and the actual sunrise, when it rises above the horizon, today, at this time of year and this latitude, 50° north, runs from 7:21 to 7:54 AM. On clear days the sky is mostly blue, but if conditions are right, an orange glow spreads out along the horizon, sometimes finding clouds to paint.

From my window, 7:21 AM, 10 days ago.

Our day here on the island varies in length from 16 hours, 23 minutes of daylight at the summer solstice, June 21, gradually decreasing to 8 hours (and 4 minutes) on Dec. 21. I was surprised to discover that the length of the twilight does not follow this pattern. This week, mid-October, here in Campbell River, civil twilight (the morning portion) lasts 33 minutes, but then it begins to lengthen, getting up to 39 minutes at the winter solstice. Then down again to 32 minutes in March, and up to 45 minutes in June.

It's all in the geometry; the angle of the sun from our position in the trip around it, combined with the angle at which the rays hit a round object (us), depending on our latitude, and then the angle of the axial tilt.

The migrating birds know more about this than we do.

I found this on Wikipedia. It shows the sunlight and twilight lengths near Frankfurt, Germany, but the latitude, 50° north, is the same as ours. The magenta line shows the civil twilight.
Carpet plot of sunshine at 50° north. (Wikipedia)

A Skywatch post.

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Hay que estar alerta en estos dias.

Los dias se están encogiendo, y por lo tanto, también los momentos en que el cielo se incendia. Veo el color por mi ventana, corro a recoger la cámara, le quito la tapa de la lente, y ... el color ya se va desapareciendo. Le medí el tiempo esta mañana; desde que vi las nubes anaranjadas hasta que nada más quedaba un tinte de crema en lo azul fueron 2 minutos.

El crepúsculo civil matutino, el intervalo entre el momento en que la luz del sol llega desde una altura de 6° debajo del horizonte hasta la salida del sol, hoy, en esta época del año, a esta latitud, o sea 50° Norte, corre desde las 7:21 horas hasta las 7:45 de la mañana. Si el dia es claro, el cielo es azul, pero si las condiciones son buenas, un brillo anaranjado se extiende desde el horizonte; a veces encuentra nubes y las pinta de amarillo o anaranjado.

Foto: Desde mi ventana a las 7:21 hace 10 dias.

Nuestro dia, aquí en la isla varía desde 16 horas con 23 minutos de sol en el solsticio de verano, el 21 de junio, y disminuyendo lentamente hasta comprender 8 horas con 4 minutitos el 21 de diciembre. Me sorprendió descubrir que los crepúsculos no siguen este modelo. Esta semana, a mediados de octubre, aquí en la isla, el crepúsculo civil matutino dura 33 minutos. Después aumenta, llegando a 39 minutos en el solsticio de invierno. Disminuye de nuevo hasta 32 minutos en principios de marzo. Y luego en junio, dura 45 minutos.

Todo es cosa de geometría. Depende del ángulo desde que nos llega la luz del son en nuestro viaje alrededor del astro, combinado con el ángulo de incidencia de la luz en el globo terráqueo según la latitud del observador, y otra vez combinado con el ángulo de la inclinación axial.

Las aves migratorias entienden todo esto mejor que nosotros.

Encontré esta gráfica en Wikipedia. Muestra las horas del dia y de crepúsculo a lo largo del año en Frankfurt, Alemania, que está a la misma latitud, 50° Norte, que nosotros. La linea de color magenta muestra el crepúsculo.

Gráfica: Plano del sol a 50° Norte. (Wikipedia)

Monday, August 16, 2021

Pre-dawn light

This time of year, the sun comes up shortly after 6 AM. Now with the distant forest fires filling our skies with smoke, the pre-dawn light is sunset orange.

Morning window, 5:35 AM.

The plants: outside; cosmos, holly, and distant evergreens. Inside; cactus, kalanchoe, creeping Jenny (could go outside happily), mango tree (fingers crossed), air plants, etc.

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En esta temporada del año, amanece un poco después de las 6 de la mañana. En estos días, con el humo de los incendios forestales, la primera luz con ell sol todavía bajo el horizonte tiene el color anaranjado propio de la puesta del sol.

La foto es de mi ventana mañanera, a las 5:35 AM.

Las plantas son: afuera, el cosmos, el acebo, y abetos distantes. Adentro: varios cactos, kalanchoe, lysimachia (este bien podría ir afuera), un árbol de mango (un experimento; ojalá aguante el invierno aquí en el norte), claveles del aire, y otras.


Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Dawn, with wires

As the days shrink, dawn comes later and later. This was first light, at 7:32, from my kitchen window.

Sunrise was at 7:22.

"Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning." Or so they say; after this orange and purple dawn, the day was beautiful, calm and warm.

A Skywatch post.

Sunday, March 06, 2011

The never-ending BC battle; sunshine vs. rain

Two dawns, three days apart:

Layered rainstorms
 And then it poured rain all day, all the next, and all the next.

Saturday morning. Deep grey mist and a struggling sun. 7:19 AM

The sun, bisected. 7:20 AM

The sun bleaches out, the fog thins. 7:21 AM

The sun won this round. We went to Reifel Island and brought home 300 + photos. Sorting, sorting ...

A Skywatch post.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Waiting for the sun

I'm tied up with work and a deadline for a couple of days.

Here's a fine morning a week ago.

Dawn, with pigeon and wires.
Now, back to the grindstone ...

A Skywatch post

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Pink and black

While I've been busy lately, Laurie has been entertaining himself. He went out at dawn and took these photos:


Dawn over the vacant lot

And when the lighting is poor, he gets creative:


I don't know which way is up on this one.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

When the evergreens are black

I have resisted, so far, the urge to join the Skywatchers. Because I'm lazy. And it is always too difficult to choose; our skies are so beautiful, day after day.

And because they say Skywatch Friday. And I'm always late. Like now; it's Saturday night, almost Sunday morning. But, as my Momma done tol' me: better late than never.

So here are four sky shots. Laurie took these off the upstairs balcony after our first snowfall.


Dec. 21st, about 8:00 AM, looking East.


A few minutes later, looking South.


Next morning, same time. Looking West.


And looking East again.

And now, off to post my link!
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