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Post by Admin on Sept 2, 2023 9:00:55 GMT
First Light comes before Sunrise. Since I'm staying up all night tonight, I find first light useful in being a Naturalist/nature watcher.
Many, or some, think that Sunrise is when you are capable of seeing things outside.
From memory, about 30 minutes to 45 minutes before Sunrise, something called "First Light" occurs. First Light is actually when you can in fact walk around and see things outside before our star, the Sun, ever rises.
Sunrise where I'm at is currently about 7am, so I can get out there without a flashlight around 6:30am-ish.
Michael Piziak
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Post by kingcong on Sept 2, 2023 17:56:51 GMT
I've always thought of that twilight time just before sunrise as "dawn", and just after sunset as "dusk"... my two favourite times of the day I especially enjoy dawn as that's when the birds are waking up. Also, in the Summer months at both dawn and dusk I like to watch the bats swooping around my back garden to feed on insects (Noctule bats, I think, because they're tree-dwelling, and that dawn / dusk feeding is typical behaviour - plus, they're quite large for a UK species). With the occasional exception, I tend to get up early in the morning - between 3:30 and 4:30am, usually early enough to see dawn arrive most times of the year where I live; and in late Spring / early Summer, to catch the birds' "dawn chorus"... plus, in the Summer months I often get to see one or two hedgehogs (just occasionally, three! )in the garden You might find the following website handy... You can enter your location and it'll give a whole bunch of useful information including sunrise and sunset times, day length, start and end times of astronomical / nautical / civil twilight, and solar noon time:
EDIT: 8:15pm and I just saw the first of the bats in the garden, 16 minutes after sunset...
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Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2023 2:37:34 GMT
I've always thought of that twilight time just before sunrise as "dawn", and just after sunset as "dusk"... my two favourite times of the day I especially enjoy dawn as that's when the birds are waking up. Also, in the Summer months at both dawn and dusk I like to watch the bats swooping around my back garden to feed on insects (Noctule bats, I think, because they're tree-dwelling, and that dawn / dusk feeding is typical behaviour - plus, they're quite large for a UK species). With the occasional exception, I tend to get up early in the morning - between 3:30 and 4:30am, usually early enough to see dawn arrive most times of the year where I live; and in late Spring / early Summer, to catch the birds' "dawn chorus"... plus, in the Summer months I often get to see one or two hedgehogs (just occasionally, three! )in the garden You might find the following website handy... You can enter your location and it'll give a whole bunch of useful information including sunrise and sunset times, day length, start and end times of astronomical / nautical / civil twilight, and solar noon time:
EDIT: 8:15pm and I just saw the first of the bats in the garden, 16 minutes after sunset...
I'm sure your thoughts are spot on and these terms just have different names and mean the same. Speaking of the birds waking up, a Rooster in my neighborhood wakes at like 3 or 3:30am every morning - speak of defining the morning!
Bats are very cool. In my region, bats completely took over the attic of a fire department and it had to be put out of use due to all the excrement. I once watched them all fly back into the attic early at what you call twilight. The fire chief thought thousands of bats were flying back into it, but under closer observation I seen that most of the bats just kept circling the roof until they found the perfect place to land - probably due to their inferior eye-sight and them mostly depending on their radar.
Your website is indeed a very good one. I like how I just seen on it when the moon would rise and was just lucky enough that it was very near the time I just viewed it on that page. Where my house is, I get both sun rises and moon rises about a half hour after it is predicted on such web sites, due to the mountainous region I'm in.
Michael
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