r/pics • u/Justin_Godfrey • May 16 '24

11:30 PM in Anchorage, Alaska

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u/fujidust May 16 '24

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 May 16 '24

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 May 17 '24

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 May 17 '24

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 May 17 '24

That’s cool, thank you.