It's Cold and Dark and it's only 9pm

[CGW101c]

Quick stop at the Council Bluffs Iowa Interstate yard

 

[Bob]

Nice catch you found lurking in the shadows...

As for being dark at 9 PM, try Seattle this time of year. It looks like that by 5:00.

 

[Bill Anderson]

Nice catch you found lurking in the shadows...

As for being dark at 9 PM, try Seattle this time of year. It looks like that by 5:00.

Sunset in Edmonds has been 4:16pm since 12/6 and will continue until 12/18, the first day of winter.

 

[Bob]

Sunset in Edmonds has been 4:16pm since 12/6 and will continue until 12/18, the first day of winter.

Correct, and this time of year you get about 45 minutes of twilight, so by 5:00 PM it's pretty dang dark. Technically though, there's even some light left in the sky on a clear day for about another hour after the end of twilight.

Until I got serious about photography, I had no idea how complicated it really is. Sunset's when it gets dark, right? Well, no... Sunset is when the sun drops below the horizon, based on a horizon level with your viewpoint. Obviously it doesn't go pitch black instantly. So you have "civil twilight" or as photographers like to call it "blue hour". At the end of that, most folks would agree it's dark. But then you have "Nautical Twilight", when the sky is deep purple, and after that you have "Astronomical Twilight", when there's still just a tiny touch of light in the sky. You won't notice it unless you're using a telescope or doing astro-photography.

 

[papio]

Nice catch Tom! Yep, it's cold and getting colder-gotta get thru this weekend and maybe it'll warm up a bit.

 

[brad_in_omaha]

At least they parked it under the light for you! Nice catch!