Yesterday evening the sun set after 9 days in the sky. For a couple of days now we have been steaming south from our final transect point, slowly moving out of the Arctic circle, towards the ship's harbour in Hirtshals, Denmark.
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Sunset After A Long Day - 23:38, 22 May 2011 |
It stayed like that for an hour or so and then popped back up again.
The 'sunsets' on this trip have been truly amazing. I purposefully chose the 3pm to 3am shift so that I would be awake during these times to appreciate the midnight sun. The sun would often go near the horizon, but never dropped below it till yesterday. It would linger leaving a beautiful sunset/sunrise glow, for over an hour, before starting its slow rise again. Of course during the day it never got very high in the sky either.
Although I never really managed to get a clean shot of the sun up round midnight, because clouds kept getting in the way farther north, here is a selection of a few I have taken, on or around midnight:
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Departing Tromsø, 20:49, 12 May 2011 |
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20:51, 12 May 2011 |
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23:43, 13 May 2011 |
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00:15, 14 May 2011 |
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00:38, 14 May 2011 |
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23:41, 14 May 2011 |
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00:12, 15 May 2011 |
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00:11, 18 May 2011 |
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00:11, 18 May 2011 |
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01:05, 18 May 2011 |
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01:14, 18 May 2011 |
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02:42, 19 May 2011 |
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01:03, 19 May 2011 |
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00:00, 21 May 2011 (Watch A Little Slow) |
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00:01, 21 May 2011 |
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22:45, 22 May 2011 |
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