Tag: astronomical twilight
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Aurora 2025
After days of snow and clouds the weather finally cleared. Even though the Aurora Forecast wasn’t great, I suggested we set an alarm to look out the windows just in case. We saw so much magenta this time. The northern lights were everywhere all at once, in all directions, as well as directly overhead. We…
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Dry Cabin Daily Rhythm
Yesterday we arose early and spent 8 hours looking for wildlife. Unlike last weekend’s phenomenal day, we saw few animals (primarily 6 caribou and 1 porcupine). Today I am shifting gears to a theme I put off while writing about more exciting things. 2 a.m., South bedroom window If we had indoor plumbing, I…
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Aurora V, from Denali National Park
Astronomical twilight (the darkest it gets this time of year) started at 12:06 early this morning. Since it was a clear night I had set my alarm for 12:20 am. I wasn’t expecting much as the forecast kp index was only a 3. To my surprise, there was some color in the sky, dramatically obvious…
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Aurora IV, April 2024
Our third night at our dry cabin in Healy, and we’ve already been blessed with the Aurora Borealis. It was relatively faint but beautiful! The dancing northern lights were all around us again – north, south, west, and a bit to the east. My new cell phone has a night setting on the camera. Now…
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Twilight II, Week 7 in Healy
The days are changing so fast. We are up to 17 hours of daylight and it is never very dark. We have no true night and no astronomical twilight. I was curious what nautical twilight looks like and took some photos when the clouds were mostly covering the moon. In real life there was plenty…
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Twilight, Week 6 in Healy
In my recent “Daylight” post I mentioned astronomical twilight and wondered how dark that was. It was a new moon, so there was no moonlight to add brightness. Since I was up anyway for the aurora, it was a good time to see just how dark astronomical twilight is. The light level was similar to…
Me & C 