Tag: sunset

Sunset Snapshots

Posted on by Matthew Green

It seems I’m specializing in sunrises and sunsets recently, but they have just been so beautiful, I can’t resist!

Sunset behind the steeple of the Unitarian Church
This church looks beautiful in the evening!
A waxing crescent moon looks down on Gloucester

Another Beautiful Evening on Cape Ann

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

Sunday Evening’s Sunset at Annisquam Light. Looks like it will be another beautiful day and beautiful evening on Cape Ann today.

Sunset Gloucester MA 3/25/11 Photo from Brianmoc

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Sunset Gloucester MA 3/25/11coffin beach photo from Brianmoc

Did You Know (Sunset)

Posted on by God's Morning
Paintings of three sunsets and unique atmospheric conditions they create
Paintings by E.J. Lefavour

That Sunset or sundown is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon as a result of Earth’s rotation.

The time of sunset is defined in astronomy as the moment the trailing edge of the Sun’s disk disappears below the horizon in the west. The ray path of light from the setting Sun is highly distorted near the horizon because of atmospheric refraction, making astronomical sunset occur when the Sun’s disk is already about one diameter below the horizon. Sunset is distinct from dusk, which is the moment at which darkness falls, which occurs when the Sun is approximately eighteen degrees below the horizon. The period between the astronomical sunset and dusk is called twilight.

Sunset creates unique atmospheric conditions such as the often intense orange and red colors of the Sun and the surrounding sky. (From Wikipedia). 

These are a few captures of disappearances of the sun below the horizon, and the resulting unique atmospheric conditions, as viewed from Annisquam.

E.J. Lefavour

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Analemma Part II, sunrise

Posted on by paultmorrison

I was admiring Joey’s sunrise photo he posted today and started thinking about where exactly the sunrise was this morning and when he would post a sunrise with the sun splitting the twin towers on Thachers.

After screwing around with astronomy tables for an hour I discovered a web calculator that figures it all out.  Solar Calculator click here.
1) Go to site and click on the map.
2) Keep double-clicking until the marker is in your backyard.
3) Go to the bottom of the table and click “show on map” both the sunrise and sunset.

Sunrise in Joey’s shot this morning at Good Harbor Beach was way down here:
This position of sunrise is not much different from a month ago at the winter solstice:

That’s because the sun is swinging around the bottom of the analemma (I posted here) and there isn’t much change. But we are gaining two minutes a day in day length now and it won’t be long before sunrise is before 7AM (January 29 to exact).

On June 21 during the summer solstice Joey will have the sun rise right about here on Good Harbor:

Check the solar calculator out. It is really easy to use once you get the hang of jumping around. Save your backyard position or figure out the exact day that a Good Harbor sunrise splits the uprights of the Twin towers. Lazy photographers who want to know exactly where the sun will be rising for their morning shot can figure it all out here.

If you do one thing, get the map centered on your favorite sunrise and sunset spot with the “show sunrise” and show sunset” lines turned on and then move the dates to June 21 and December 21.

Now they just need to make one of these things for the moonrise.