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The time of dusk is the moment at the very end of astronomical twilight, just before the minimum brightness of the night sky sets in, or may be thought of as the darkest part of evening twilight. [4] However, technically, the three stages of dusk are as follows: At civil dusk, the center of the Sun's disc goes 6° below the horizon in the ...
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Twilight occurs according to the solar elevation angle θ s, which is the position of the geometric center of the Sun relative to the horizon. There are three established and widely accepted subcategories of twilight: civil twilight (nearest the horizon), nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight (farthest from the horizon).
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Anticrepuscular rays, or antisolar rays, [1] are meteorological optical phenomena similar to crepuscular rays, but appear opposite the Sun in the sky. Anticrepuscular rays are essentially parallel, but appear to converge toward the antisolar point, the vanishing point, due to a visual illusion from linear perspective. [2] [3]
Loosely, the term crepuscular rays is sometimes extended to the general phenomenon of rays of sunlight that appear to converge at a point in the sky, irrespective of time of day. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A rare related phenomenon are anticrepuscular rays which can appear at the same time (and coloration) as crepuscular rays but in the opposite direction of ...
L.A. fire maps show Palisades, Eaton and more fires in California right now. Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, are burning across ...