It looked like this at 6:53:
And then like this at 7:11:
That was still 4 minutes before the official sunrise time. I saw another woman who was just coming in toward the vantage point. I've been in her position many times, I'm sure, with no idea I'd missed a highly colored sunrise. Many times, too, I've seen the intense red through the trees and knew I was missing it.Most days, getting to the vantage point 4 minutes before sunrise will work and you'll see the best color, as the sun breaks through. But the very red sunrises tend to come early. They're not at all about the sun coming into view. The sun is still pretty far below the horizon, but it's reflecting off the clouds. If it's half an hour before sunrise and you see a rosy tinge beginning to appear on heavy, bumpy clouds, move fast. Get to your vantage point. It might be the reddest sunrise of the year.
And then like this at 7:11:That was still 4 minutes before the official sunrise time. I saw another woman who was just coming in toward the vantage point. I've been in her position many times, I'm sure, with no idea I'd missed a highly colored sunrise. Many times, too, I've seen the intense red through the trees and knew I was missing it.Most days, getting to the vantage point 4 minutes before sunrise will work and you'll see the best color, as the sun breaks through. But the very red sunrises tend to come early. They're not at all about the sun coming into view. The sun is still pretty far below the horizon, but it's reflecting off the clouds. If it's half an hour before sunrise and you see a rosy tinge beginning to appear on heavy, bumpy clouds, move fast. Get to your vantage point. It might be the reddest sunrise of the year.More pictures later. These aren't my best photos of the today's sunrise. I just wanted to make a point about timing.
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Dawn isn’t sunrise. Dusk isn’t sunset. But twilight can refer to both dawn and dusk. But for awhile twilight is synonymous with dusk.
You can find the times for these referred to as Nautical and Civil Twilight. Civil Twilight is the time when the sun has yet to broach the horizon, but there is enough light to discern physical features. Nautical Twilight is the time the horizon at sea can be discerned. I had to learn this during pilot training.
I thought civil twilight is when the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon and nautical twilight is when the sun is 12 degrees below the horizon.
In general usage, dawn refers to the light before sunrise (the red photo from today) and dusk (and twilight) refers to the light after sunset. There are definitely shades (degrees) to each during clear skies.
"Who is Ann Althouse" copies the title of a Thomas Berger book "Who is Teddy Villanova" but in German.
Twilight, Dawn, and Dusk
Types of Twilight
There are three types of twilight:
Civil twilight
Nautical twilight
Astronomical twilight
Astronomers define the three stages of twilight on the basis of how far the Sun is below the horizon.
More here: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilight.html
Debussy wrote that Wagner was a beautiful sunset that had been confused with a sunrise.
Sunrise on the St Johns River 12/6/24 from my living room.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tUcB6Xfbh1X43XC78
Roosters detect the increasing UV light a couple of hours before sunrise.
Appx 7:05am
Tonight's sunset over the St Johns River 22/6/24 5:27pm
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tUcB6Xfbh1X43XC78
Civil twilight suggests that there's an Uncivil Twilight, and I think that is about 4:55 am, when you're just stumbling out of a bar after pulling an all-nighter.
I've seen those idiots cock-a-doodle-dooing at all manner of hour. They're best deep fried for revenge.
There are a lot of very, very rich CEOs in this country. And a lot of them are completely wiping their LinkedIn pages and removing themselves from their corporate websites. They're hiring PR firms, announcing price cuts, firing the AI bots that routinely deny you medical care even though you pay $2,000 a month for health insurance.
The only one that was safe was the Costco CEO who told his VP that if he raised the price of the $1.50 hot dog, he'd murder him.
That guy was safe.
But he died last year.
Hey, new CEO of Costco ... read the room, bro. Read the room.
UHC had a claim denial rate of 32%. The (medical) insurance average is 13.5%. The UHC denial rate is the highest of the major medical insurance carriers. This wasn't some NYC homeless psychiatric case that killed this CEO. Just sayin'.
My sunrise photography came to an abrupt end this summer when my start time was moved from 7 a.m. to 6 a.m. Now it is always dark when I arrive at work and the sun doesn't rise until well after I'm already inside.
So on the advice of maybe 50 Romanian intelligence officers, it seems like the Romanian election has been annulled due to well, some vague accusations of Russian shenanigans on TikTok, but really because NATO's choice in the runoff came in third, and the peace candidate was looking to win in a landslide.
What will the EU do to protect democracy? My bet is that the candidate who probably would have won the election on a platform of peaceful coexistence in Europe, just like what the people in Georgia wrongly voted for, will be arrested. The EU knows the man, so the crimes will appear, just like with Le Pen and with Imran Kahn.
Remember, it's not democracy if your side loses! Look for Ukrainian interests, who desperately want to drag more countries into their losing war to scream about cheating, but don't look for any specific evidence, just claims that "everybody knows it, and look at all of these media reports! That many NGOs can't be wrong!"
Irman Kahn was arrested and removed from power for revealing the existence of a diplomatic cable from the Biden Administration that ordered Pakistan to remove him from power and imprison him, or there would be grave consequences for Pakistan. Yes, kafkaesque as it may seem, he was arrested for "revealing state secrets," and the secret was that the US had ordered Pakistan to arrest him.
And of course there is what they did to Trump. Isn't democracy great when the globalists are in charge?
This was one of my best sunrise pictures of the year, from August 2nd:
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipMpT4y3RXAzoiob2IvLXr2Drm7aMb_on5NiYKD7
I started a very expensive prescription recently. Although it's being prescribed on label, and although I'm well above the minimum levels that define the recommended range for prescription, UHC nevertheless denied coverage out of the box. I tried disputing this and got connected with (what sounded like) the Bangalore customer service desk. A guy named 'Rick' with heavily-accented, poorly spoken English. That call lasted 40 minutes and got exactly nowhere. When I asked for the 5th time to escalate to a more fluent speaker with higher authority levels, the call disconnected. The second time around, it took 25 - 30 minutes to get through the dispute process. 'Mary' spoke better English. About 5 days later, it was approved, even though filling the first prescription would cost me over $500 out of pocket. After that, it becomes defined as 'catastrophic' and the price comes way down for subsequent refills.
Of course, it's December, and January follows December for - guess what? - a new policy, and so filling my prescription a second time will also be over $500, because I'm doing it for the first time in 2025.
Deny - Delay - Defend; They bought enough time to run the clock out for 2024, saving themselves some profit margin, because the first month's supply won't run out by then. Sound familiar? Doesn't everybody love being screwed? And yet, nowhere have I heard any mention of the miracles of the Affordable Care Act. They just forgot to tell us that it's best 'afforded' by your local profit centers.
That can't be real. Right?
Why do you care how other people spend their own money?
Ann does nice, deliberate work. I have to rely on luck. Last year I happened to look out the window and see orange and gold. I grabbed my phone and managed to get a couple of gorgeous sunset pics. We get great sunsets here in the high desert - this sunset was a top three.
So which will come first: the left Cloward-Pivening the shooting into an illustration of why we need to go full socialized medicine, or the right pouncing on the shooter’s manifesto as an example of why ACA needs to be repealed and replaced?
I would normally depend on the right to be completely disorganized and therefore unable to pounce, but maybe Trump’s appointees this time will have enough initiative and discipline to do it, even cooperating cross-silo, e.g. the Kash FBI giving the manifesto to the RFK et al health agencies.
JSM
Nice. So astronomical is when the center of the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon. Maybe we can start referring to various degrees of twilight: Dawn 10, Dusk 24
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