Check out twilight at the south pole!

[LeftInTX]

Nautical Twilight started on August 22. The sun will rise on Sept 23. It stay risen until March 21st, then civil twilight will begin and nautical twilight will continue for a month.

Here's the last snap. If you see a big white ball in the sky, it's the moon!
https://gml.noaa.gov/obop/spo/livecamera.html

It's rare to see a good twilight shot on the south poll cam. The moon often interferes and the earth's rotation forces the sun to appear out of the camera's view. I got kinda lucky.

[electric_blue68]

1. If anyone wants to see the variety of sunrise, day, sunset, dusk, night about anywhere in the World go to Gaisma.com

Here is (look at red crosshairs) about a bit past 10PM in Anchorage this night
(once I get the post image up 👍 )

Here we go.
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Ooops blurry. Obviously yellow= day,
gray = night.
Blue = dawn.
Pink = twiight

Left to Right = Jan through Dec
Bottom to top = right after Midnight to 11:59PM. You can choose 24 hrs, or 12 hr sets to view on the graph.

You can obviously see how unusual this is, as in all the (near to) northern most lattitudes.
.and reverse Southern most

[LeftInTX]

2. Cool site! Thanks!

[electric_blue68]

3. YW! I've been looking at this site off & on for yrs....

Especially on the rare occasion of traveling really out of my NYC, NJ area.

[electric_blue68]

4. I rarely if ever need to quickly reference this site but Seattle poster just said the big dark is coming on my OP....

about the shortening daylight.
And I can see how soon they're going darker.

Their latest sunst seems to be about ?9:10PM, about 38 mins later thsn NYC.

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. Is Gumby photo bombing in the lower right?

Info about Gumby in the link below. No mention of him being at the pole, however.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumby#:~:text=The%20name%20%22Gumby%22%20was%20derived,Farrington%2C%20in%20an%20old%20photograph.

[LeftInTX]

6. Looks like it to me!

[Nittersing]

8. My question as well. nt

[Emile]

7. Wow, they have inflatable tube men on the south pole.

[LeftInTX]

11. He's still there. It's a NOAA site. I don't know he got there.

https://gml.noaa.gov/obop/spo/livecamera.html

It almost looks a special effect or a sticker on the camera housing or something. Gumby doesn't appear to be moving.
He wasn't there in 2024. .

They used to shut down the camera in the polar winter (May through Aug) but now it's on all year!

There was also a north pole cam, but it hasn't been deployed since 2015.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. poll is not pole (twice)

[LeftInTX]

10. LOL...Too much voting!