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The Midnight Sun Game is an amateur baseball game played every summer solstice at Growden Memorial Park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Because the sun is out for almost 24 hours a day, the game starts at about 10:30 at night and completes around 1:30 the next morning .
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Midnight Sun Run is a ten-kilometer (6.2 mi) road running event, held annually since 1983 in Fairbanks, Alaska, it attracts participants from across the United States and from around the world. The race takes place on the third Saturday of June each year, starting at 10 p.m. with the boom of a cannon that can be ...
Locations where the Sun remains less than 6 (or 7 [4]) degrees below the horizon – between about 60° 34’ (or 59° 34’) latitude and the polar circle – experience midnight twilight [5] instead of midnight sun, so that daytime activities, such as reading, are still possible without artificial light on a clear night.
Map showing the dates of midnight sun at various latitudes (left) and the total number of nights. It is a religious obligation for Muslims to fast during the month of Ramadan and the requirement is to begin fasting each day when a white thread can be distinguished from a black thread at dawn; fasting ends when the sun sets completely.
However, this doesn't mean it is completely dark for 24 hours a day for areas experiencing polar night. This is due to a time of day called "civil twilight," according to the Weather Channel.
(AP Photo/Laura Rauch) At 2:16 a.m., the sun finally dipped below the horizon, marking the first official night in 83 days for Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States.
Polar night is a phenomenon that occurs in the northernmost and southernmost regions of Earth when the Sun remains below the horizon for more than 24 hours. This only occurs inside the polar circles. [1] The opposite phenomenon, polar day or midnight sun, occurs when the Sun remains above the horizon for more than 24 hours.
“In the South Pole, the season when the sun is up,” or daylight happens for 24 hours is about six months, Petrov says. By contrast, the Equator experiences 12 hours of daylight, with small ...