tomscott.com - @tomscott - Despite the rather mythical title to this video, it's actually mostly about technicalities. And not about the dodgy vampire books.
Vancouverite here, and this actually makes a lot of sense. I've always felt like it never gets 100% dark at night during the summer, and now I know why.
Commonwealth is more of an alliance than straight up british empire. That said, i wonder what would have happened if the empire itself never split apart.
Alaska is probably like the north-west territories where they have a period of time in the winter with no sun, and in the summer they have a period of time where the sun sets for 5 minutes and rises again.
@@webthefox Depends on what part of Alaska. That state is gigantic. The main population centers like Juneau are south enough that they still get sunsets in summer and sunrises in winter, but the less populated areas are liable to that kind of thing yes.
This makes sense of a 'discovery' I made last solstice: I was checking sunrise/sunset times on a website that also features twilight times and I noticed where I live has night in midsummer, but another place I'd checked didn't, so I checked more and more places in between until I found where this line passes, within walking distance of my house. Forgot all about it, but now, knowing that 18° below the horizon is the cut-off point, it makes sense that it's exactly 18° south of the arctic circle (48°34'N).
There probably is also light pollution though especially if it happens when it’s winter and clear out many hours after sunset. Fri/03/19/2021 at 11:20 EDT
@@jacobdobbins5443yes, the UK is much warmer than other places at our latitude due to the Gulf stream so this effect is more pronounced here than in other cities with similar climates
discorobotification In the Twilight Zone, the host introduced a story with "Submitted for your approval..." and Tom ends his videos with "and that was something you might not have known."
I remember in uni (me and my friends were out on the town in Portstewart to celebrate the end of exams) the sun went below the horizon but there was this afterglow that lit up the sky like a very faint triangular rainbow that moved from the west round to the east until the sun rose again. It was very cool to see.
And of course, once you get far enough north, you never see the sun dip below the horizon during certain parts of the year (other parts, it never comes up again).
Yes, mainland America isn't far north enough, but Alaska sure is. In fact, quite a bit of land is north of the Arctic Circle. I mean, we are being technical, right?
+Tom Scott -- America has one better than your Twilight Summers! In Alaska, not only do we not experience true night throughout the summer, we can party all night while bathing in the Midnight Sun!
@@gorthorki Actually, Alaska runs quite a bit further north than does Iceland. In fact, a large portion of Alaska lies within the Arctic Circle (which Iceland barely grazes).
I’ve been trying to understand this for ages. Brilliant that you can clarify so much in just 2 minutes. Can’t believe you’ve sorta-retired this channel now (Jan ‘24). Thanks for so much excellent content.
While I was living in Scarborough I noticed it didn't QUITE get completely dark. When I told people about my observation, I got the typical "strange Americans" look. I'm sending people this video now.
I'm from the south of England but when I was on holiday in Northumbria it really did surprise me how bright it still was at 1am (adjusting for British Summer Time, true midnight and therefore the darkest time)
Hey Tom, I know it's been a while, but northern Maine in the contiguous U.S. extends above the 47th parallel. Therefore, for part of the year it stays in astronomical twilight all night long.
The 47th parallel has a brief period of complete darkness Anything in the high 40s latitudes, closer to the 50th parallel northwards has no complete darkness By the 65th parallel there is almost 24 hours of daylight Between 48.56 and 65.73 degrees has no complete darkness on the summer solstice
This is one of the few things I might not have known that I actually already did! I guess it helps that I take pictures of the sky for fun. Thanks for all these videos! I'm working my way backwards through the catalog, since that's the order the playlist goes in. Silly RUclips playlists, not allowing reverse-watching.
I live just 100km from the polar circle (within a stone throw in a Northern Sweden context) and the almost-midnight sun is the good part. The fact that you can miss the sun if you blink in winter is the really fucking depressing part.
As an amateur astronomer, the situation with the astronomical twilight is not as bad depending on viewpoint. Until the sun is 14-15 degree below the horizon the light pollution is still brighter than the twilight, until then I can still take broadband pictures of deepsky objects like galaxies. For small band images like nebulae I have time until the sun is 12 degree below the horizon. End of June I have a small window between 0h30-2h45 local time. This is when I can take images of the Triffid Nebula (M20) and the Lagoon Nebula (M8) which reaches only 14 degree high in my area (which is in Belgium at 50°54' North) , and the small band nature of the objects gives me a little more room to capture the objects.
@@macifest5180 No. it's the centre! More precisely, civil twilight begins when the sun is fully below the horizon (thus 'top edge'), until the centre is 6° down, nautical until the centre is 12° down, astronomical until the centre is 18° down.
From what I can tell only the top third of Alaska gets a night where the sun never sets. But not sure if that's what you mean. The rest will definitely get the season of no true night though. Just as explained in the video.
does that apply in ireland? cuz i've noticed, last summer, that at 2,3 and 4 a.m it was as bright as it was at 11:30 - midnight, and at around 4:15 the sun started to rise. so if it applies in ireland, i guess i know why, and if not, then i just thought it was bright (the moon wasnt out at the time, only stars, but it wasnt dark enough (and trust me, i live in the middle of nowhere) to see those colorful cloudy things in the sky (the galaxy) so they didnt provide enough light to make me mistake it for twilight)
I knew about the 3 twilights from my Weather Underground app, but did not know the definitions. In Chicago, it is perpetual twilight from the light pollution. There is a bird species that every spring chirps all night long calling to its (potential) mate to come home.
I take exception to one thing said, that there are entire seasons in which UK does not experience "night", and only in the autumn does true "night" return. The problem is... the seasons run from solstice to equinox or equinox to solstice. Therefore, when summer starts (at the solstice), the cycle of no true night is already halfway finished, and is completely finished well before autumn starts at the equinox. Just sayin'....
Depends just on the definition, what you give is the modern astronomical definition, meteorology for example defines it a bit differntly for reason of data recording consistency, our far ancestors defined the solstice indeed as *midsummer*
In Saint Petersburg in Russia during mid June to mid July we have what we call "white nights". It's bright as day even at midnight and it's hard to keep track of time
Civil Twilight - between 0 and 6 degrees below the horizon (when there is still enough natural light in sky to do outdoor activities without having to use an artificial light, hence it’s called civil twilight) Nautical Twilight - between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon (when sailors can navigate the sea on a boat, hence it’s called nautical Twilight) Astronomical Twilight - between 12 and 18 degrees below the horizon (it’s still a little to see far away objects like nebulae and galaxies hence it’s called astronomical twilight) Emerald Campus Twilight - between 18 and 24 degrees below the horizon (when the sky is still somewhat light that you can still see a little bit of light but extremely limited, and can see like buildings still, hence it’s called Emerald Campus twilight)
A little late and off topic, but even the International Space Station has times where it is in nearly constant daylight or darkness for days. It causes serious power management problems for the solar powered station.
Does anyone know the maximum degrees the sun gets below the horizon for London at the peak of summer? Does it stay in astronomical twlight or nautical?
Well apart from not knowing that there was an official definition of night, I knew about the three twilights. I'm not convinced though that it's not night when it's astronomical twilight; is that really lain down somewhere?
....well, I mean there is alaska. I was in Ketchikan, which isnt that far north, during the summer solstice and there was no night. They had something like 4.5 hours of nautical twilight when I was there.....
New England isn't but Angle Township in Minnesota is. Also, Bellingham WA also experiences nearly two weeks without true night at the height of Summer and is part of the Contiguous US. So Tom's more than a bit wrong even discounting Alaska. Informative video beyond that though.
Detroit barely stretches into that definition where Emerald Campus Twilight can last nearly all night from astronomical dusk to astronomical dawn, latitudes between 42.561 and 48.561 degrees north or south latitude will experience Emerald Campus Twilight for the rest of the night, I live close to the 40th parallel so are night only lasts for 2.5 hours, really almost 5 hours However latitudes > than 89.44 degrees, or within a half of a degree of either pole never experience nighttime instead their minimum on winter solstice is Emerald Campus Twilight
Here is midnight sun in Inari, Finland. It's annoying to sleep, because sommers are so bright. (I didn't take that photo, just googled it.) media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/05/22/24/c5/ivalo-trek-lapland-day.jpg
i did know that it's not night in Estonia all summer, technically, but did not know that all of british islands ar so far north... :) this degrees below horizon are connected with latitude, isnt'it so? like, 60th northern latitude means that ... well, what does it mean? that at summer Sun is never more than ... what was it... 6 degrees below horizon?
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Tom looked like he was appearing on the news for an interview but wanted to keep his identity hidden...
Exactly what I thought. His deep voice makes it even closer to that.
YOS.
"Just say, 'you'll do it tonight.' It will buy you a few weeks."
Dilip Tien VSAUCE
SO VSAUCE!
Astronomical procrastination 😁
Or go to the north pole and it will buy you 9 months, but you have to say Solar Night.
Fri/03/19/2021 at 11:19 EDT
Vancouverite here, and this actually makes a lot of sense. I've always felt like it never gets 100% dark at night during the summer, and now I know why.
In Vancouver,BC there is no night from June 6 until July 6
The sun never sets on the british empire anyway... :P
+d3rrial Indeed and it still hasn't thanks to one tiny island on the other side of the world.
Until there is a solar eclipse....
15 Redstones May the gods have mercy on our souls if that happens!
+nekogod quite a few more than just 1 island if we talk commonwealth nations.
Commonwealth is more of an alliance than straight up british empire.
That said, i wonder what would have happened if the empire itself never split apart.
I live in Vancouver - Interesting! I didn't realize!
Alaska, I guessing, would be the exception in the U.S.
Alaska is probably like the north-west territories where they have a period of time in the winter with no sun, and in the summer they have a period of time where the sun sets for 5 minutes and rises again.
@@webthefox Depends on what part of Alaska. That state is gigantic. The main population centers like Juneau are south enough that they still get sunsets in summer and sunrises in winter, but the less populated areas are liable to that kind of thing yes.
Three types of twilight:
1) the time between sunset and night
2) a popular Zelda video game
3) a horrible vampire novel
4) A purple unicorn
Oh god please no Tom, my sister was obsessed with MLP
*flashbacks*
@@Megacooltommydee Princess Twilight Sparkle, between Twilight Princess and the Twilight where people sparkle.
@LegoGuy87 and candace?
It's also a dimension of sound
A dimension of sight
A dimension of mind.
This makes sense of a 'discovery' I made last solstice: I was checking sunrise/sunset times on a website that also features twilight times and I noticed where I live has night in midsummer, but another place I'd checked didn't, so I checked more and more places in between until I found where this line passes, within walking distance of my house. Forgot all about it, but now, knowing that 18° below the horizon is the cut-off point, it makes sense that it's exactly 18° south of the arctic circle (48°34'N).
Wow! Always thought it was just light pollution when the night wasn't all that dark. And now I know. (I like in the UK.)
You like in the UK, but dislike when you're elsewhere?
@@theblackwidower *live..
There probably is also light pollution though especially if it happens when it’s winter and clear out many hours after sunset.
Fri/03/19/2021 at 11:20 EDT
I knew about different types of twilight, but didn't realize UK was far enough north to never technically dip into nighttime. Great video, as usual!
Its likely due to the north = cold misconception most people have
@@jacobdobbins5443yes, the UK is much warmer than other places at our latitude due to the Gulf stream so this effect is more pronounced here than in other cities with similar climates
You could say that the UK is stuck in THE TWILIGHT ZONE over the summer.
Submitted for your approval is something you might not have known.
But the majority of the US had nighttime all year.
+Allan Bao I didn't know that.
+Noel Goetowski I'm not sure you're trying to say.
discorobotification In the Twilight Zone, the host introduced a story with "Submitted for your approval..." and Tom ends his videos with "and that was something you might not have known."
I remember in uni (me and my friends were out on the town in Portstewart to celebrate the end of exams) the sun went below the horizon but there was this afterglow that lit up the sky like a very faint triangular rainbow that moved from the west round to the east until the sun rose again.
It was very cool to see.
And of course, once you get far enough north, you never see the sun dip below the horizon during certain parts of the year (other parts, it never comes up again).
@@n0lainwell Reykjavik isn't North of the Arctic Circle
In northern Sweden (and other countries up here) the sun never goes below the horizon.
Yeah! It makes it really hard to sleep
Only around the summer though - during the winter months there are no days and it's not ridiculously hot (water is solid).
Pawel Korzeniewski Yeah, I forgot to mention that. During winters the opposite is true; the sun never rises.
Markus9705
The days are starting to get quite long here in Uppsala though.
Pawel Korzeniewski The same is true for the little densely built-up area outside Borås.
Yes, mainland America isn't far north enough, but Alaska sure is. In fact, quite a bit of land is north of the Arctic Circle.
I mean, we are being technical, right?
Just because one state of america is, doesn't mean the whole of america is. He did say united states. So he's still right on a technicality.
seigeengine Alaska and thought don't really belong in the same sentence. Look who they elected governor! "I can see Russia from my house".
seigeengine Also, Palin never said it. It was a line from one of Tina Fey's SNL skits where she was playing Palin.
If we are comparing governors, we have a long way to go before we are as bad as CA...
+Tom Scott -- America has one better than your Twilight Summers! In Alaska, not only do we not experience true night throughout the summer, we can party all night while bathing in the Midnight Sun!
That's cute
- Iceland
Wouldn't it be the "lower 49" since Hawaii also is unaffected by this phenomenon?
@@gorthorki Actually, Alaska runs quite a bit further north than does Iceland. In fact, a large portion of Alaska lies within the Arctic Circle (which Iceland barely grazes).
Jared Focose Enjoy your insomnia!
I’ve been trying to understand this for ages. Brilliant that you can clarify so much in just 2 minutes.
Can’t believe you’ve sorta-retired this channel now (Jan ‘24). Thanks for so much excellent content.
While I was living in Scarborough I noticed it didn't QUITE get completely dark. When I told people about my observation, I got the typical "strange Americans" look. I'm sending people this video now.
I still do live there and you're right. Some nights (or twilights) from about the 19th - 23rd June it never gets darker than dark blue in the sky.
I'm from the south of England but when I was on holiday in Northumbria it really did surprise me how bright it still was at 1am (adjusting for British Summer Time, true midnight and therefore the darkest time)
Hey Tom, I know it's been a while, but northern Maine in the contiguous U.S. extends above the 47th parallel. Therefore, for part of the year it stays in astronomical twilight all night long.
The 47th parallel has a brief period of complete darkness
Anything in the high 40s latitudes, closer to the 50th parallel northwards has no complete darkness
By the 65th parallel there is almost 24 hours of daylight
Between 48.56 and 65.73 degrees has no complete darkness on the summer solstice
Forgetting about Alaska, Tom?
Meh, no one cares about Alaska since Sally Palin came onto the scene.
+Noel Goetowski But . . . it's the biggest state!
So the rush is off, then?
And point Roberts.
Alaska is Russia-lite, doesn't count.
Someone who explains it so clearly & makes sense of it! I’m late to the party but I’m subbing from here 😊
This is one of the few things I might not have known that I actually already did! I guess it helps that I take pictures of the sky for fun.
Thanks for all these videos! I'm working my way backwards through the catalog, since that's the order the playlist goes in. Silly RUclips playlists, not allowing reverse-watching.
Very interesting, as always!
I live just 100km from the polar circle (within a stone throw in a Northern Sweden context) and the almost-midnight sun is the good part. The fact that you can miss the sun if you blink in winter is the really fucking depressing part.
The auroras kinda make up for, though.
I'm told that you can play golf at midnight in Shetland in the summer.
Slightly related, Longyearbyen in Svalbard has a fully circular sundial.
The lack of Twilight Zone jokes here disappoints me.
Photography skills: epic. Nice one Tom :)
I never knew :D congrats on 35,000 subs
It's okay mom, I'll do my homework toNIGHT
Thanks for the good explanation, passionate as well - that's always welcome! Good vid :-)
*Lives in the UK*
*Gets out of bed*
*Rolls up sleeves*
It's gonna be a looong day.
It's an understatement unless you spam the o's in the middle.
i honestly need more of these, my life feels empty without new information T_T
And of course, here in Iceland we have perpetual days during summer.
Thanks for the short video. Exactly what I wanted to see - an example of the 3 twilight stages. Great and short explanations!!
Thanks Tom!
how far south do you have to go for the same effect to happen in the other half of the year?
Thank you for the lesson on lighting .. that i was never never able to visualize.
now i know why i couldn't sleep on time when i was in Saint Petersburg, Thanks Tom!
As an amateur astronomer, the situation with the astronomical twilight is not as bad depending on viewpoint. Until the sun is 14-15 degree below the horizon the light pollution is still brighter than the twilight, until then I can still take broadband pictures of deepsky objects like galaxies. For small band images like nebulae I have time until the sun is 12 degree below the horizon. End of June I have a small window between 0h30-2h45 local time. This is when I can take images of the Triffid Nebula (M20) and the Lagoon Nebula (M8) which reaches only 14 degree high in my area (which is in Belgium at 50°54' North) , and the small band nature of the objects gives me a little more room to capture the objects.
I guess you could say they're in the 'Twilight Zone'
Even my toddler noticed this. After sunset she would call the evening either blue-dark, purple-dark, or black-dark.
When you give these degrees , is that in reference to the center of the sun ?
These degree measurements (0-18 degrees), are they from the top edge of the sun, or from the center?
That's a good question. I would assume the top edge, since the sun has to dip below 18 degrees, not just at 18 degrees.
@@macifest5180 No. it's the centre! More precisely, civil twilight begins when the sun is fully below the horizon (thus 'top edge'), until the centre is 6° down, nautical until the centre is 12° down, astronomical until the centre is 18° down.
1:20 Alaska experiences the so-called "midnight sun".
From what I can tell only the top third of Alaska gets a night where the sun never sets. But not sure if that's what you mean. The rest will definitely get the season of no true night though. Just as explained in the video.
Even in the south bits, though, it never really gets fully dark in the summer. I could go birdwatching at 2 a.m. if I felt so inclined.
does that apply in ireland? cuz i've noticed, last summer, that at 2,3 and 4 a.m it was as bright as it was at 11:30 - midnight, and at around 4:15 the sun started to rise. so if it applies in ireland, i guess i know why, and if not, then i just thought it was bright (the moon wasnt out at the time, only stars, but it wasnt dark enough (and trust me, i live in the middle of nowhere) to see those colorful cloudy things in the sky (the galaxy) so they didnt provide enough light to make me mistake it for twilight)
Yes, applies to Ireland as well (it's just a bit to the west, not really to the south of the UK)
EcceQuomodoMoritur00 yea, i live in Co.Donegal, north-west. great, then im not seeing things :D
When I lived in Beaverton, Oregon, USA it didn't get dark till about 9-10PM. Here in Las Vegas, NV, USA it gets dark usually about 5:25PM PDT.
Up in saskatchewan it seems like dusk for most of the night for a week or two in the summer haha.
thank you very sharing this!
Nautical Twilight is the idea lumination for picking out stars for navigation.
I can gloat to my mum that I don't have to sleep in the summer holidays because it's technically never night
An oldie but a goodie!
I visited London once a decade and a half ago, over New Years. It was always crazy to me how it was night by 4pm.
as a vancouverite i'm just excited to be mentioned
Anyone know when this "No night" will start and end in the UK this year
love your vids.
quick question. during the civil twilight is the sun completely under the horizon or is part of it still above?
It starts when the sun goes under the horizon.
Twilight the Unicorn, Twilight the Alicorn, and Twilight from Equestria Girls.
No.
emanuel0831 I know, Equestria Girls is traumatic.
Nick M Duffy I agree. When I used to watch the show, I saw EQ. It was terrifying.
No, dumbass, Twilight with the werewolves and vampires.
That fight with Tirek though.
I live 1 degree north of the polar circle, and in the summer, the sun is up 24/7, but not down 24/7 in the winter.
I knew about the 3 twilights from my Weather Underground app, but did not know the definitions.
In Chicago, it is perpetual twilight from the light pollution. There is a bird species that every spring chirps all night long calling to its (potential) mate to come home.
Very Interesting, I think were I live the absolute minimum number of hours of night we may have is 4-5 right around the summer solstice.
In Finland during summer the sun never dips below the horizon (at least where I live (Seinäjoki)). It is always bright.
I take exception to one thing said, that there are entire seasons in which UK does not experience "night", and only in the autumn does true "night" return. The problem is... the seasons run from solstice to equinox or equinox to solstice. Therefore, when summer starts (at the solstice), the cycle of no true night is already halfway finished, and is completely finished well before autumn starts at the equinox.
Just sayin'....
Depends just on the definition, what you give is the modern astronomical definition, meteorology for example defines it a bit differntly for reason of data recording consistency, our far ancestors defined the solstice indeed as *midsummer*
"We live in a twilight world"
- Some sort of secret agent
In Saint Petersburg in Russia during mid June to mid July we have what we call "white nights". It's bright as day even at midnight and it's hard to keep track of time
What type of horizon? Local, geographic or sea level?
Civil Twilight - between 0 and 6 degrees below the horizon (when there is still enough natural light in sky to do outdoor activities without having to use an artificial light, hence it’s called civil twilight)
Nautical Twilight - between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon (when sailors can navigate the sea on a boat, hence it’s called nautical Twilight)
Astronomical Twilight - between 12 and 18 degrees below the horizon (it’s still a little to see far away objects like nebulae and galaxies hence it’s called astronomical twilight)
Emerald Campus Twilight - between 18 and 24 degrees below the horizon (when the sky is still somewhat light that you can still see a little bit of light but extremely limited, and can see like buildings still, hence it’s called Emerald Campus twilight)
I always think of this video every summer solstice. Makes more sense than dancing around Stonehenge
i want to know what seasons have night time in the uk and what dont but i cant find it on google
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Welcome to the Witness Protection Agency Tom.
Mom: Be home before night time!
Son: *Arrives months later*
Also, how many days did you have to invade Canary Wharf trying to one-take this during the narrow slip of time where the sun is positioned just-so?
A little late and off topic, but even the International Space Station has times where it is in nearly constant daylight or darkness for days. It causes serious power management problems for the solar powered station.
If anyone is wondering if they live in places like these, it's places above roughly 48.5 latitude.
Omg that's amazing!
How about lithuania?
Toronto is in Canada for anyone who doesn't know.
Very cool
Wow I was at Canada One just a couple of days ago taking photos of the Sunset! Hahaha
Does anyone know the maximum degrees the sun gets below the horizon for London at the peak of summer? Does it stay in astronomical twlight or nautical?
Late reply but, during the summer equinox on 21 June, london stays in astronomical twilight for 3hrs 17 mins, from 23:24 to 02:40
I THINK my southern state [Georgia] sometimes gets astronomical twilights sometimes. Or maybe it was just the moon being really bright haha.
Well apart from not knowing that there was an official definition of night, I knew about the three twilights. I'm not convinced though that it's not night when it's astronomical twilight; is that really lain down somewhere?
lol... one of the best fun facts I've ever heard... (besides the fact that almost all bananas are genetically identical)
I live at 40°N 40.12° to be exact and night still happens in midsummer
And then there's Norway where we don't have nights at all during the summer
....well, I mean there is alaska. I was in Ketchikan, which isnt that far north, during the summer solstice and there was no night. They had something like 4.5 hours of nautical twilight when I was there.....
Now I did not know that, roll on summer
So does thatr technically make me a fan of twilight since I prefer the night and have spent 90% of my life in England?
Aren't parts of New England north of Vancouver? Not to mention Point Roberts and Alaska.
New England isn't but Angle Township in Minnesota is. Also, Bellingham WA also experiences nearly two weeks without true night at the height of Summer and is part of the Contiguous US. So Tom's more than a bit wrong even discounting Alaska. Informative video beyond that though.
there is also Twilight the song by Electric Light Orchestra
Detroit barely stretches into that definition where Emerald Campus Twilight can last nearly all night from astronomical dusk to astronomical dawn, latitudes between 42.561 and 48.561 degrees north or south latitude will experience Emerald Campus Twilight for the rest of the night, I live close to the 40th parallel so are night only lasts for 2.5 hours, really almost 5 hours
However latitudes > than 89.44 degrees, or within a half of a degree of either pole never experience nighttime instead their minimum on winter solstice is Emerald Campus Twilight
What about that movie? Insomnia? Weren't he in a place whereby it's not got night time for parts of the year? Is that a real thing or not?
At which time to which time these twilights longing.....
hands up if you knew all this but still like the twilight in this video.
Three types of Twilight: the Zone, the Pony and the... you know what.
The night sky as mentioned in this video?
Here is midnight sun in Inari, Finland. It's annoying to sleep, because sommers are so bright. (I didn't take that photo, just googled it.)
media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/05/22/24/c5/ivalo-trek-lapland-day.jpg
But I thought Twilight was a book about sparkly vampires.
we don't talk about that 4th kind :p
you missed an adjective before book.
brian whittle
:p
God I hate those damn books...
That description of Twilight is still a better love story than Twilight
There are also actually three types of sunrise.
+denelson83 Yes, the same three twilight phases between the end of the night phase, and the start of the daylight phase.
"technically" the sun doesn't go down at all anywhere on earth
Not America? Well, yes. Juneau is on the same latitude as the top of Scotland
i did know that it's not night in Estonia all summer, technically, but did not know that all of british islands ar so far north... :) this degrees below horizon are connected with latitude, isnt'it so? like, 60th northern latitude means that ... well, what does it mean? that at summer Sun is never more than ... what was it... 6 degrees below horizon?
Tom Scott is my favourite black youtuber
And if you go north enough, there are days the sun doesn't even set on the summer.. or rise on the winter.
What causes the breeze at sunset? Googling 'sunset breeze' just get a load of holidays, real estate and scented candles!