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Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun 's disc has reached 18° below the observer's horizon. [1] This morning twilight period will last until sunrise (when the Sun's upper limb breaks the ...
Blue hour. The blue hour (from French l'heure bleue; [1][a] pronounced [lœʁ blø]) is the period of twilight (in the morning or evening, around the nautical stage) when the Sun is at a significant depth below the horizon. During this time, the remaining sunlight takes on a mostly blue shade. This shade differs from the colour of the sky on a ...
Ushas (Vedic Sanskrit: उषस्, IAST: Uṣás, nominative singular उषाः IAST: Uṣāḥ) is a Vedic goddess of dawn in Hinduism. [2] [3] She repeatedly appears in the Rigvedic hymns, states David Kinsley, where she is "consistently identified with dawn, revealing herself with the daily coming of light to the world, driving away oppressive darkness, chasing away evil demons ...
southern dawn: The Southern Lights, an aurora that appears in the Southern Hemisphere. It is less well-known than the Northern Lights (aurorea borealis). The Aurora Australis is also the name of an Antarctic icebreaker ship. aurora borealis: northern dawn: The Northern Lights, an aurora that appears in the Northern Hemisphere. aurora musis amica
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Matutinal animals are active only after dawn, and vespertine only before dusk. A number of factors affect the time of day an animal is active. Predators hunt when their prey is available, and prey try to avoid the times when their principal predators are at large. The temperature may be too high at midday or too low at night. [2]
Suhur, Sahur, or Suhoor (UK: / s ə ˈ h ɜːr /; [1] Arabic: سحور, romanized: suḥūr, lit. 'of the dawn', 'pre-dawn meal'), also called Sahari, Sahri, or Sehri (Persian: سحری) is the meal consumed early in the morning by Muslims before fasting (), before dawn during or outside the Islamic month of Ramadan. [2]
Brahmamuhurta occurs during this phase, and yoga masters state that the best time to meditate is one and a half hours before dawn, because the mind is inherently still at that time, enabling one to achieve a deeper meditative state. [4] [5] [6] Yoga teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya stated "Think of God. If not God, the sun, if not the sun ...