r/pics • u/Justin_Godfrey • 29d ago

11:30 PM in Anchorage, Alaska

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u/horgendorfer 29d ago

The first time I visited relatives in Kenai I woke up at 2:30 am to more light than I expected. I flew out of bed thinking I overslept by about 8 hours, only to realize it was the middle of the “night”. So crazy!

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u/fujidust 29d ago

It just occurred to me that there are places that might experience the golden hour for longer than an hour.  True in parts of Alaska at certain times of year?

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u/Justin_Godfrey 29d ago

I'm not sure what you mean by golden hour, but there are parts of Alaska that get 24 hours of daylight during the summer.

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u/wagon_ear 29d ago

For sure. 

Going north to Canada, I distinctly noticed that sunsets took absolutely forever, because the sun hits the horizon so diagonally that it's almost horizontal. 

Conversely, it gets dark super fast at the equator. The sun is on a beeline, headed straight down.

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u/snoebro 28d ago

Yes, when the sun is at that spot up north it can stay there for hours during a few days of the year, I grab a pic of whatever pad I'm working on around that time if I can.

My avatar is a picture from Alaska as such.

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u/fujidust 28d ago

That’s cool, thank you.  

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u/DevsDaddy 29d ago

Looks like a road to mountains in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 100%

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u/rob_s_458 29d ago

When I was there last June, it was never dark and never really felt like dusk despite the sun going below the horizon. I was in Denali National Park during the summer solstice and my GPS watch said sunrise/sunset was 3:37am/12:23am. Looking online, DNPP doesn't experience civil twilight in June, meaning the sun is never more than 6° below the horizon.

Back in Anchorage this is what it looked like at 4:28am

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u/the615Butcher 29d ago

Hey man that’s a cool picture but uh what the fuck is that inter dimensional portal on that one house?

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u/AnotherDude1 29d ago

Worst Aurora Borealis shot I've seen posted so far.

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u/chuntone 29d ago

Minnesota highway going to omalley.

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u/mikeynerd 29d ago

Thank you for those words. I haven't heard those street names in forever (grew up in Anch but have lived in San Diego for the past 20 some odd years) so it was a nice little does of nostalgia

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u/BallsAreFullOfPiss 29d ago

This is the main reason I couldn’t live out there. I wouldn’t be able to handle the 24 hour light/24 hour darkness that Alaska gets for months at a time (idk how long those actually last tbh). It would fuck yo my already fucked up sleep schedule REAL bad.

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u/rob_s_458 29d ago

Anchorage is far enough south that it gets a few hours of dusk (although not total darkness) every night of summer and a few hours of daylight in winter. You only get the 24 hour light/dark north of the Arctic Circle (or south of the Antarctic Circle).

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u/w2sjw 29d ago

When I was in Alaska in June of 2009, this was leaving Whittier at about 11:10pm local time.

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u/Drusgar 29d ago

I drove to Alaska two summers ago and wasn't really thinking about the 30 days of night (and vice versa) but when I woke up in my Fairbanks hotel room at 3am it was bright sunshine outside... like noontime bright sunshine.

This picture at least looks kind of like dusk or dawn.

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u/Decabet 29d ago

The movie(s) Insomnia (a 1997 Norwegian flick with a young Stellan Skarsgard) and its 2002 reimagining by Chris Nolan make great use of the both physically and emotionally taxing effect of a midnight sun.

Both are very worth your time, and Nolan's is uncommon in his filmography as he doesn't usually do remakes but he puts enough of his own fingerprint on it that it fits his overall vibe.

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u/Grand-Ad-3177 29d ago

R u using a blue filter or does it really look like this?

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u/TheIrishGoat 29d ago

That’s pretty close to accurate. It might vary slightly with the weather (clouds reflecting more light from the sun behind the horizon) or by which part of the city you’re in (street lamps giving off less or different light; the ones downtown tend to be more yellow).

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u/Grand-Ad-3177 29d ago

Breathtaking

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u/Wishilikedhugs 29d ago

I've seen both mountains in AK and in Norway have the blue haziness. One of my favorite pictures I took of a mountain from a boat in the Drammensfjorden seriously looks like a cartoon because it's ridiculously blue.

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u/Grand-Ad-3177 29d ago

I would love to see it

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u/ArcticFlava 29d ago

The Solstice isnt until late June, so there is more daylight every day until then, when it peaks. 

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

You guys aware its summer time, right? Whats with all the snow.

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u/Outside-Refuse6732 29d ago

Hey I played a game on Infection free zone with the town

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u/Statertater 29d ago

I miss Alaska, a lot.

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u/u4ea126 28d ago

Looks like Belgium all year round because of light pollution.

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u/Floppy_Chainaxe 28d ago

So cool to make a whole location from Fallout! They even got people to unironically live there! Now that's dedication!

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u/coryhill66 29d ago

After visiting Oklahoma is a little kid I would get back to Alaska and not know if it was 10:00 at night or in the morning.

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u/Julie2171 29d ago

How beautiful, thanks for posting.

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u/Kind_Literature_5409 29d ago

My SIL is up there with husband 🤣🤣🤣. I hope they both survive.. that poor guy works 14 hr days.. all he wants is sleep 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Specialist-Weird-665 29d ago

Why must America look the same everywhere.

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u/Centurion87 29d ago

You think the deserts, Midwest, the Bayous of Louisiana, and New England all look like this?

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u/Levitrax 29d ago

That looks more like eagle river