Island Sunset
by Kay Novy
Title
Island Sunset
Artist
Kay Novy
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Bohol Sea on the island of Camiguin, in the Philippines.
Sundown is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon as a result of Earth's rotation. The Sun will set exactly due west at the equator on the spring and fall equinoxes, each of which occurs only once a year.
Subcategories of twilight
The time of sunset is defined in astronomy as the moment when the trailing edge of the Sun's disk disappears below the horizon. Near to the horizon, atmospheric refraction causes the ray path of light from the Sun to be distorted to such an extent that geometrically the Sun's disk is already about one diameter below the horizon when a sunset is observed.
Sunset is distinct from twilight, which has three phases, the first being civil twilight, which begins once the Sun has disappeared below the horizon, and continues until it descends to 6 degrees below the horizon; the second phase is nautical twilight, between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon; and the third is astronomical twilight, which is the period when the Sun is between 12 and 18 degrees below the horizon.Dusk is at the very end of astronomical twilight, and is the darkest moment of twilight just before night.Night occurs when the Sun reaches 18 degrees below the horizon and no longer illuminates the sky.
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May 12th, 2018
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Hanne Lore Koehler
Fantastic golden sunset capture, Kay! Wonderful sunlight reflections in water and sky! L/F
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the ABC Group's T IS FOR TRANQUILITY themed week. You are invited to add this to the features archive discussions and in another discussion in ABC Group!
Kay Novy replied:
Thank you, Pamela! Always an honor to be featured on the homepage ABC group T Is For TRANQUILITY!
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations on your amazing photographic art is featured in Camera Art! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive thread! group as well as any other thread in which it would fit!
Kay Novy
Ian, "Awesome Asia" group, thanks so very much for the homepage feature! Much appreciated! Will tweet the group!
Kelley Freel-Ebner
Congratulations! Your extraordinary work has been Featured in the Fine Art America group “The Earth Is Art”! You are invited to archive your featured image for permanent storage and for viewing on the Discussions Page in: “2018 Member's Extraordinary Features Images Archive 2.0!” theme. Simply copy your image’s Embed URL on your image’s profile page, and paste it into the Discussion Topic site: https://fineartamerica.com/groups/the-earth-is-art-.html?showmessage=true&messageid=4095414
Kay Novy replied:
Thanks so much Kelley! Honored to be featured on the homepage of "The Earth Is Art" group!
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