May 27, 2023. Sunset 8:22 PM. San Francisco, CA.
Our only post this month, (though we've been ringing away into the fog everyday)-
April 26, 2023. Sunset 8:15 PM. Olympia, WA.
April 22, 2023. Sunset 7:56 PM. Saint Helena Island, SC
April 21, 2023. Sunset 7:29 PM. Manhattan Beach, CA.
"Manhattan beach sunset. With a few pelicans transiting across the horizon"
April 9, 2023. Sunset 7:39 PM. San Francisco, CA. Two little doves watching the sun go down with us this evening. (They could actually see it from up there).
March 30, 2023.
Today would have been my mother’s 90th birthday. She’s been gone for almost 30 years and I still say goodnight to her every evening. Here she is in good company here with my brother and grandmother
March 30, 2023. Sunset 7:30 PM. San Francisco, CA.
March 30, 2023
Check this out!!
If you have a Night Sky viewing app on your phone-- you can virtually see ALL of the planets aligned at the same time since the app will show you what's "below the horizon" i.e. the position of the planets in relation to the other side of Earth--
March 27, 2023. Sunrise 7:15 AM. In the sky…
Balancing raw eggs at 2:24 PM PDT
March 18, 2023. Sunset 6:31 PM.
March 17, 2023. Sunrise and Sunset 7:17 AM and 7:18 PM (by only a few seconds). San Francisco, CA.
At this latitude today.
Equilux - Sunrise and Sunset dividing the day into equal parts of light and darkness--
March 17, 2023. Sunrise 7:23 AM. South Carolina
March 14, 2023. Sunset 7:29 PM. In the sky …Houston, TX
“Almost to IAH. Bound for Austin (SXSW)”
March 6, 2023. Sunrise 6:46 AM. West Homestead, PA.
More this week from cousin Barb! “Sunrise from my Home Office. Happy Monday”
March 4, 2023. Sunrise 6:49 AM. Pittsburgh, PA
From my cousin https://www.facebook.com/barb.kostovny yesterday in Pittsburgh atop the US Steel Building.
Feb. 26, 2023. Sunset 6:00 PM. San Francisco, CA.
February 8, 2023. Sunset 5:40 PM. San Francisco, CA.
Our dear friend and colleague, Megan Bury, from the Exploratorium passed away today after living for a long time with cancer. She was funny and brave and we will miss her so much.
January 31, 2023. Sunset.
January 30, 2023. Sunset 5:31 PM . Mill Valley, CA.
Sunset yesterday, Mill Valley
January 21, 2023. Sunset 5:20 PM. San Francisco, CA.
Jan 17, 2023. Sunrise Wooster OH (7:49 AM) vs Philadelphia, PA (6:51 AM)
Hey Brenda, I was thinking of you yesterday… I’m working in Wooster OH this week, an early shift, and I noticed how much darker it is here than in Philly at 6:30 in the morning… Even though the same time zone, much further west, sunrise and sunset or later…
Anyway, I thought of you. Hope all is well.
-Joe P
It's so interesting isn't it- where we are in the time zone? So many factors for when the sun rises and sets-- though if we just move horizontally through the time zone- at least the days are the same length-- It's a lot to keep track of-- BH
January 8, 2023
I love these kinds of proclamations as much for their sparks to the imagination as for the spontaneous enjoyment that arises from hearing such a thing in the first place.
Who exactly witnessed this event and what were they doing at the time? What kind of person can make such an incredible statement with such certainty and nonchalance?
In any event, this is a rare celestial opportunity- First appearing this Sunday 1/12—
For more info.
A comet known as C/2022 E3, marked by its bright green nucleus and long faint ion tail, will be on display in the Earth sky later this month — possibly for the first time ever or at least for thousands of years. Its glow may be visible to the naked eye, though only in dark night skies. Observers with binoculars or telescopes have a greater chance of witnessing the rare speck of light.
Spectators in the Northern Hemisphere can begin to spot the comet's faint glow in the morning sky this month. The comet will likely be visible to those in the Southern Hemisphere starting early February.
After its brief appearance in the Earth skies, it's unclear where it may go.
January 7, 2023. Sunset 5:00 PM. Hermosa Beach, CA.
January 4, 2023. Sunset 5:04 PM. San Francisco, CA.
January 1, 2023. Sunrise
January 1, 2023. Midnight-
I have always loved listening to the year roll over. Before cell phones, the pops and bangs and car horns and yelling would start trickling in several minutes before midnight—building to the maximum noise making at midnight. Then, after a minute or so of lots of yelling and some fireworks added to the mix, the loud sounds would thin out and the night would return to whatever state of steady ambience it normally lived in.
Since cell phones, this whole progression happens more “precisely” than in the days when each of us personalized our time keeping devices. Some of us ran a few minutes fast in order to be “on time” for appointments; others synchronized to some standard; still others didn’t keep time accurately at all but wore for watches for other reasons. This looseness of how each of us considered time- affected the sound of “midnight” on New Year’s Eve so that it was a rather drawn out, raggedy affair—
Now it seems that the whole noisy progression is more compressed. The first sounds start later and everything dies down more quickly. It has more of an ensemble feel to it – more predictable, a little less wild.
It’s still an amazing way to travel into the new year – listening in the darkness and celebrating with unknown and unknowable people playing this special once a year piece of music together.
December 31, 2022. San Francisco, CA.
With much gratitude and wishes for a better New Year to everyone
Sunrise 7:25 AM.
December 23, 2022. Quito, Ecuador
December 22, 2022. Sunset 8:37 PM. Above Panama City.
December 21, 2022. Sunset 4:54 PM. San Francisco, CA.
It doesn't look that much different around here than many, many nights over the past 2 years- However...
We have just moved through the shortest day of the year and into the 4th night of Hanukkah!
Wishing everyone an abundance of light and blessings of the season.
December 21, 2022. Sunset 4:53 PM. Berkeley, CA.
“Lulu and I have been thinking of you today and decided to make another 'event' at exactly 4:53pm...blues and grays.
She was really excited to do it again”.
-Wendy Reid
December 21, 2022—Sunset 4:53 PM
December 20, 2022. Sunset 4:52 PM. San Francisco, CA.
December 15, 2022. Sunset 4:51 PM. San Francisco, CA.
December 14, 2022. Sunrise 7:34 AM. Munhall, PA.
December 11, 2022. Sunset 4:50 PM. San Francisco, CA.
December 1, 2022. Sunset 4:50 PM. San Francisco, CA.
Today is the earliest sunset we will experience this year. Well before the Winter Solstice!
And the sun will set at this same (earliest) time for the next 10 days before opening back up and letting more light onto the world-- (again well before the shortest day of the Solstice)
Though, in spite of the sunset incrementally advancing later into the evening, the Winter Solstice will still end of being the shortest day - as the sunrise will continue to rise later and later each day (well into January).
This all has to do with the rate of change for the sun crossing at each end of the day-- You can track your own approach and departure from the Solstice here. Just fill in your location and track the days- here
Surprised?! I was-- When I first plotted the days and rates of change for the sunrise and sunset, I made this little drawing and it delights me every year.
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