Sunrise Sunset Times Seasons Insight

Over a month has now passed since my December 23rd post looking at where in the solar system we are on our planet Earth. Then, Earth looked at the top of the ‘clock face’. Now we’ve travelled around to 11 o’ clock, as we’re going anti-clockwise:

If Earth’s axis was more like a carousel swung from the sun the north would always be pointed in and the south out, as heads are inside and legs out, so north would always be in summer and the south in winter, but it is more like a toffee apple on a rigid stick, staying in the same position as it orbits the sun, meaning the south is pointed towards the sun on one side, and the north on the other:

There’s more about the planets’ different seasons on Cosmos.

Sunrise and Sunset Times

As we reach the end of January, sunrise has now dropped below the 8am mark in Leeds, mistYmuse (#mYm2020) central. It was at 07.55 this morning, according to the Time and Date website. Nearly half an hour earlier than the latest sunrise of the winter at 08.24, which included December 31st.

Likewise, in the other direction, sunset has stretched the light 50 minutes later, from 15.54 to 16.44. So that’s about an extra hour and twenty minutes of light a day.

The horizon cloud gap was back this morning and the light looked a glowing yellow in the gap, as if the colour was compressed below the cloud. Again, I don’t know if that’s an optical illusion!?

Tree-Hugging Sun Photos, UFO-Shaped Light Haloes

greenYgrey fans can probably see gYg,
especially in the sky earth symbiology,
sunlight and photosynthesising tree,
original returned or baby or three,
or trick of the light photo technology?

The outer ring seems to be PinkyOrangePurple (well pinky anyway!) in the first too, for new POP age fans, fitting in with the POP following on from the greenYgrey core gYgPOP evolution!

Books of Yesteryear for the Discerning Cur; recursive?

Sky Answers My Philosophical Science Question?

Last sunrise I wondered if cloud gaps on the horizon are a scientific fact or just cos I noticed the gap waiting for the sun.
The sky seemed to answer me today when there was mostly cloud on the horizon!

Moonday Poem for Pagans

Grilled tomato smoke
wafted greyer than air
as sunlight broke
through window to evoke
before Venus rose
a female soprano voice
emitted from the TV
triggering thought energy
in my brain synergy
the power of three…

to be remembered
half the day later
after seeing Venus
now bright in night
clear as day, as they did say
above new crescent moon.

27 Jan. The Moon returns to the evening sky and appears just 6^o from brilliant Venus in the west after sunset. Today, the planet Neptune is less than 0.25 degrees north of Venus. If you have a telescope, try to see these two worlds in a single field of view. As January ends, Venus rises nearly 3.5 hours after the Sun and reaches well above the western horizon at sunset. Other than the Moon or Sun, it’s the brightest thing in the sky.

The Night Sky This Month

If you liked that poem you’ll probably love some in this:

Andy Warhol Style POP Art Sunrise Photos

Another sunrise squeezed out for mistYmuse 2019/20 #mYm2020 between green land and grey cloud, gYgPOP (greenYgrey PinkyOrangePurple) style!
There often seems to be a clearing in the cloud on the horizon. I wonder if that is a real scientific occurrence, with the sun burning away the cloud, or if it’s all in the mind: just noticing gaps like that when you are watching it during these special times.
The sky did clear briefly after sunrise, before the forecast rain arrived… earlier than it looked on the weather maps.

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Sunrise Surprise: POP (PinkyOrangePurple) Clouds Create Colourful Cruscendo

I think I was awake before and/or around the sunrise yesterday, but didn’t bother watching it as another clear morning was forecast, and I’d seen and photographed a similar one the previous day. This morning I was expecting cloud, so didn’t expect any ‘sunrise’. I got up just after 8am anyway, having first woken a while before, and dozed. The first thing I saw was this POP (PinkyOrangePurple) sky!

The moral of the story might be ‘the early bird catches the worm’, but that’s usually meant to support the benefits of diligence, eagerness and hard work!

In this respect it was more about luck, unless the sun did wake me up for it! So it is more in line with greenYgreyism; or its predecessor, a grey area!!

I’m not promoting laziness either. I’d happily wake up for the sunrise every day of the year if I had reason: such as it being my job. My ‘greenYgrey’ attitude for me reflects interest in it.

I’m doing it for the public good as I see it; promoting the sky is there for everyone, and can be a mood booster, especially for people who have SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder).

However, I am promoting my writing and my point of view (literally and metaphorically!) too: scientific agnostic paganism; so thanks to everybody who reads, learns and enjoys; and also those who read and tolerate without too much hate!

Most ‘celebrities’ and ‘influencers’ do it much more, or have people do it for them, but most people don’t do it at all!

Sunrise Surprise Subsides

As the sun rose and POP colours subsided I took some of that, and cropped some for close-ups. That’s the only editing; there’s none on the colours:

Then the sky started to turn blue:

Sky colour science on Wikipedia.

My books where POP (PinkyOrangePurple) was discovered (as a sky arts concept) accidentally, coinciding with the travel quest for the greenYgrey world’s pop artist, Andy Wolfhol.

Leeds Sunrise Month After Midwinter

There was a nice sunrise yesterday morning, mistYmuse midpoint for the 2019/20 event, as midwinter and the spring equinox are on the 20th.

There was probably a similar one this morning, but the sun rose without waking me today! Consecutive days may make me seem too much of a sun worshipper anyway!!

Sunset Photos to Celebrate mistYmuse 2019/20 Midpoint

The December solstice was on the 20th last year, and March equinox is on the 20th too, so this could be said to be the midpoint of mistYmuse 2019/20, celebrating the most ideal sunrise times in the northern hemisphere, starting a month before midwinter; possibly the world’s longest festival?

There was an exceptional sunset in Scotland last night according to this article. It does well to include orange and purple with red, but there’s no pink(y) to complete the POP (PinkyOrangePurple) set!

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51174308

Sun Returns to Arctic Circle: Welcome to mistYmuse 2020!

Tromso, a Norwegian Arctic Circle municipality I visited for midsummer in 2007, can see the sun again, having enjoyed only the first week of mistYmuse (Most Ideal Sunrise Times – Midwinter Until Spring Equinox) 2019. The Arctic Circle was facing away from the sun so much, Tromso could not see the sun (no ‘sunrise’) between November 27th and January 15th.

Although our planet spins around on its axis (making the ‘time of day’) the tilt stays the same; north to south; so our planet orbits the sun like a human partly elevated on a bed circling something. As shown in this seasons image:

As our planet orbits in the solar system, our axis tilt is now returning the north to facing the sun, reaching parity of light with the south at the spring (north) / autumn (south) equinox: this year on March 20th.

 

New UK Cultural War? No, Megxit is a Ripple Effect of Brexit!

Some comments I’ve made elsewhere on Harry and Meghan’s behaviour, and the Manchester child-grooming scandal being uncovered after 15 years this week, but still ignored by Meghan and her fans!
More theoretically, I ask: Did she have plans to use UK as link for African takeover of Europe; a pincer move between African Americans and Africans?

On last night’s Question Time:

Shami’s shame: Meghan’s silence on the mostly white children being racially groomed by mostly Muslim men was mirrored by Corbynista leader; Jeremy’s inner circle member Shami Chakrabarti; continuing a silence they’ve always had; neglecting their traditional voters, which probably contributed to the landslide election loss.
In a week when 15 years of cover-up were revealed in Manchester, it wasn’t a topic on Question Time last night. Meghan was, and Chakrabarti spoke passionately on ‘racism’ there.
When actor Laurence Fox said race had been used to stop the police investigating the child grooming, Chakrabarti was silent, and didn’t comment!

Comments on MSN article about it being a new cultural war:

It’s not a ‘new cultural war’: it’s a continuation of the old one, and Megxit is a ripple effect from Brexit.
If Corbyn had won the election and Brexit had been stopped Britain would have become more like Meghan wanted, and she’d have been well placed to win the battle versus the traditional royals.
If a Meghanista won the US presidency they could have used Britain as a link between USA and Africa.
In answer to a question about Meghan’s ambitions for world-changing, using UK as base for African Americans – Africa pincer move on Europe:
Going a bit into conspiracy theory there admittedly, but Meghan’s quite a hard-line ‘African-American’; Serena Williams’s right-hand woman. After the wedding, with her lone black mother (sitting alone despite apparently being offered a place with the ‘white’ royals) the only family member there, Meghan always did visits and photo opportunities with ‘women of colour’, ignoring poor whites like the grooming victims. Likewise her ‘charities’.
Her Vogue cover was full of ‘black power revolutionaries’.
The symbolic propaganda seemed to peak with the South Africa visit, where Archie was unveiled to the media with Tutu, a famous anti-Apartheid leader.
Archie’s godparents have remained secret: I think I know why, but could be wrong!