A Canonical Sunset, Cloudless Division
Posted on March 16, 2009 Posted by John Scalzi 13 Comments
Yup, that’s pretty much what one looks like. Any questions? No? Then class dismissed.
Whatever
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WHATEVER
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If that is a view from your place, I envy your night sky. I haven’t had a good, warm night yet, where I could whip out my Smith-Cassegrain 70mm. It’s not how big it is; it’s how you use it, I’m told.
I hate it when I have my hand raised and you don’t call on me and then dismiss class. :(
Wow, that’s gorgeous.
We were working on the partly cloudy division for a while but seem to moving into the full cloud, no discernible sunset division at the moment.
I’m glad you post these. The Puget Sound is a wonderful place but is not known as a contender in the neat sunset collection
8D
I might get to see a flat Ohio sunset on Friday –I don’t know if it will be clear. We’re starting out from Pittsburgh around 1 pm. I think it will be getting near sunset when we arrive at our destination.
You and my father must have the same whatever-it-is that makes one take pictures of the sunset over and over again. I like ’em. I just don’t have the photo gene.
That’s purty. I live too close to the mountains to enjoy sunsets. It’s a decent trade-off.
Mmmm.
Ha! That’s so much nicer than my sunset tonight.
http://twitpic.com/26a8p
Did you take that with the camera on your phone? The static image on my screen makes me want to take a deep breath and sigh out all the mental BS I’ve seemingly accumulated today.
Yeah I got a question, can you prove that’s not a sunrise?
I keep forgetting how weirdly flat most of the country is. 20-some years in West Virginia, then the rest in New Hampshire does leave one with a skewed perspective. I can’t even quite tell how far away those buildings are.
The secret is to keep nuking Indiana. The land between the Scalzi Compound in western Ohio and Indianapolis is a barren waste with the occasional mutated groundhog as a result of John’s photographic “experiments.”
Re #11 John Murphy: As a native-born WV person I feel that it is natural to have to look up to see the horizon and to have direct sunlight only at noon.
Mark Evans@12:
I’m pretty sure that direct sunlight is harmful. Getting an unobstructed view of a giant unlicensed fusion reactor just seems like a bad idea.