The light
Afterglow
Afterglow is the colour left on the western sky after sunset, lit by a sun already below the horizon.
It is at its best a quarter of an hour after sunset, when high cloud catches light that the ground has lost.
Golden hour, the twilights and the moon, where you stand.
Sol for iPhone is coming soon, with each of them for the place you stand, on your phone and your wrist.
Afterglow, where you stand.
You stand at the middle of your horizon. The dots are the sun’s path today, warm where the light turns golden; the stage opens at eighteen minutes after sunset. Slide through the day, or drag the sky to turn it.
How Sol measures it.
After sunset the ground is in shadow but clouds a few kilometres up are still in direct sun for another quarter of an hour, lit from below through a long, reddening path of air. High, thin cloud gives the best of it; a clear west lets the light through, and an overcast one blocks it — which is exactly what the sunset forecast weighs.
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