Sunset: January 3, 2024

As so often happens (if you're lucky) a great sunrise coincided with a front moving in this morning.  And a great sunset happened as the same front was moving out.  It's the old saying taking visual form:  "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.  Red sky at night, sailor's delight."

It's all a matter of timing — and understanding what is happening.  Neither the sunrise nor sunset looked promising.  But with modern technology (weather satellites, airport weather reports, etc.) you can learn how to better predict when these things will occur. (Like all weather predictions, don't expect anything close to 100% accuracy.)

These two pictures (I write these things based on my Flickr feed) represent another dimension of the same phenomenon.  If you saw a great sunrise because a front was moving in, there's a good chance the day's sunset will be a good one.  Because — where I live, in the Southeastern U.S. — it just works out that way.  Not always.  But a lot of the time.  And if you know to look for it, you'll be better prepared to be in that spot you want to be in when there's a great sunrise/sunset.

The mighty Saturn V  rocket at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center towers over the suburbs of Huntsville, Alabama at sunset.  Yes, it's straight out of the camera. 

Nikon D7200 — Nikon 200-500 F5.6 ED VR

450mm

F8@3 seconds

ISO 100

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©Don Brown 2024