A glorious sunset

[Blue_In_AK]

and a few minutes later, the last rays.

[Callalily]

1. Wow! These are spectacular!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. I'm wondering, we get skys like that in Arizona

You have about 5 minutes to catch them before they change. My wife and I even have a sky alert, stop whatever you are doing and come look right fucking now or you will miss it. Is it the same in Alaska?

[elleng]

6. Same in Maryland, OffWith!

Grab camera, run outside, and hang for around 5 minutes to capture the entire show!

[Blue_In_AK]

7. It depends on the time of year.

Especially in the winter they can hang around for a while. Because the sun is so low on the horizon to begin with, it's kind of one long golden hour all day. Now, we're getting about 11 hours of day light and the sun is higher. Sunset last night was at 6:36. I started shooting a little after 6:00 and stopped about 6:50.

In the summer, it doesn't get completely dark so if you happen to be up at midnight to 2:00 a.m. or so you can watch the sunset kind of morph into sunrise.


Just to give you an idea of how the sun moves around here, in the middle of winter I can't get a good sunset shot at this spot because the sun is way over to the left of where it is now behind some hills and trees. Later it will be far to the right of the mountains you see across the inlet.

[mnhtnbb]

3. Nice!

[In_The_Wind]

4. Breathtakingly beautiful.

[elleng]

5. You got it!!!

[ohheckyeah]

8. Words fail...

spectacular, beautiful, breathtaking.