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ꒌ САМО 45 МИНУТА ПОСЛЕ (недоживљеног) најкаснијег изласка сунца у години, разочарани фотограф награђен је дугом коју ”пресеца” јато дивљих гусака у формацији.
Срећан БАДЊИ ДАН! :) 🎉✨

► ▓░█ EVEN THE NATURE IS BEING MINDFULLY REFLECTING the great event to come over a couple of days. On January 6th, – or December 24th according to Julian calendar – the orthodox Christians loyal to their universal, apostolic character, celebrate Christmas Eve throughout the world. Our profound repeated experience is that the nature awaits a week or so after the Western shifted Christmas (as celebrated according to Gregorian calendar), only to start unmistakably showing the real awakening in the days prior to old-calendar old-style orthodox Christmas.

☩Southerner in the North, still dreaming of the Southern Cross... its a Cross to bear. The Northern Cross.⍅

This capture is made 8 minutes before the Airbus A320 from a previous photo (seen high above), will have landed in Munich. The flock of wild geese however flies by, some 45 minutes later in the opposite direction, as if to 'cross the rainbow'. Is that their goal? (Of course, just one soloist goes ⥃opposite direction, the brave ones are always alone!) What could be their goal... what instinct is driving their passage? A rainbow is thrilling to see from the ground, or from an airplane, just imagine how it must be, seen by these birds in their perfectly synchronised free flight. A flight over dense network of high-voltage power lines, high rise erections, transmission towers, radio antennae wiring and other treacherous interfering objects. Using no GPS, no IFR nor ILS, no VOR or beacons, just VFR but no instruments – the formation is ever neatly kept and the goal achieved. Just that we don't know what, why, when and where...

❖ Underexposed ⅔ EV (for the rainbow, not for the birds). Panasonic DC-G90, OM System 12-45mm f/4 at 42mm, stopped down to f/6.3, handheld 1/640 sec., ISO 200. Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 2.4


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ꒌ ДАН НАЈКАСНИЈЕГ ИЗЛАСКА сунца (2. јануара у Београду; у случају локације на слици: три дана пре овог светлописа, али разлика је само неколико секунди).

► ▓░█ The December solstice marks the shortest day north of the equator. But this was taken 12 days later! Why? And where is the Sun? Why have I missed the latest sunrise almost two weeks after the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere?

ASTRONOMY HAS part of the answer. The other is meteorology. We might expect that the shortest day of the year would coincide with the latest sunrise and the earliest sunset. But the Sun continues to rise later each morning after the solstice. Why do the latest and earliest sunrises and sunsets not coincide with the solstices?

It’s because the length of a day is not always 24 hours.
According to our clocks and watches, every day is exactly 24 hours long. But according to the Sun, it’s not. The length of a solar day can be up to 22 seconds shorter or 29 seconds longer than 24 hours.

What is a solar day? It’s the amount of time from one solar noon to the next. Solar noon is the moment the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky on a particular day.
The consequence of all this is that, over the course of a year, our clocks and watches go in and out of sync with the Sun—leading to shifts in the times of sunrise and sunset.

Why does the length of a solar day fluctuate?
There are two reasons. First, Earth’s orbit around the Sun is elliptical — in other words, it’s not a perfect circle. Secondly, Earth’s spin axis is tilted — at the December solstice, the South Pole is pointed toward the Sun.

FINALLY, the weather was bad for weeks around my town. Since before the solstice, all the days had been grey⛆grey⛆grey⛆... There was some chance of the clearing on this particular day but it came just too late. So I took this photo solely as a proof that I was out there, ready to jump on at the very moment of sunrise. Grey morning bore a grey photo. No intention to publish this.

But, God always awards the effort of an early bird! By sending the early planes, in this case. A short minute after this dull scene I spotted an airplane lit by sun rays exactly above the horizon where the sun was expected to show up. And that is kind-of worth posting. See my next upload.
Thank you!

Panasonic DC-G90, OM System 12-45mm f/4 at 45mm f/4, 1/1000 sec., ISO 200. Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 2.4 File name: P1020906-from-RAW_


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A fragment on the solar day above is borrowed from an article by Graham Jones published at www.timeanddate.com.

ꒌ ТРАГОМ СУНЦА – Наслов ове књиге Алана Жербоа [Alain Gerbault, 1893 - 1941], давно преведене на српски, прати ме цео живот. Често се појави у мислима или ситуацији чак и кад нема повода за то. Жербо је остао да живи на Јужним морима Тихог океана; мој сан се није остварио чак ни да видим Полинезију, ни друга острва Океаније (осим острва Светог Јована у Сингапурском мореузу).

Пилоти авиона на фотографији иду трагом сунца – али не било којим! Него ка Београду. Ово је за мало био тренутак најкаснијег рађања сунца ове зиме (теоретски овде пре три дана; у Београду баш овог јутра у 07:15). Ипак нисам имао срећу да доживим тај излазак, због облака који се виде на слици (испод авиона). Али пилоти Ербаса су боље среће. Светлуцави траг иза њихових млазних мотора сведочи да су они обасјани сунцем. На висини од 37.000 стопа (11.278 метара), дакле изнад облака, не само што виде сунце које је мени заклоњено, него је оно за њих одавно изнад хоризонта (због њихове висине изнад површине земље). Тачно пре један сат полетели су из Даблина и за нешто мање од сат времена слетеће у Минхен.

► ▓░█ IN QUEST OF THE SUN. The first minute of the day – 2 Jan 2025 07:48 UTC / 08.48 CET (local time). Taken mere seconds after the astronomical sunrise, which in this particular place on the globe on this day is almost the very latest sunrise of the winter (the latest was on December 30th but the difference is just several seconds and all those mornings were totally gloomy ⛆overcast)! Sun rises here at 128°SE, almost exactly as is the flight direction of this Airbus A320 belonging to Aer Lingus. The flight EIN3KM originated in Dublin 59' prior to this capture and will be landing at Munich MUC over 52'. So the pilots in the cockpit at 37.000 ft (11.278 m, which is 2400 m higher than the summit of Mt. Everest) are probably watching the sunrise precisely ahead of them. In spite of the clouds above Germany it is indicated by the sunlit jet trail behind them. Their view of the sun is thus not blocked by the clouds like my view is.

They are flying at 525 kts, so for the crew the scenery must be changing really fast. Having crossed the Irish Sea they encountered Liverpool, then traversing England and crossing the North Sea they reached the Old Continent at Den Hague; then flew over Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Biesbosch. They are above Eindhoven Airport at this moment, ahead of them is not a straight route to Munich but a corridor connecting the airports on route – Cologne, Frankfurt, almost as far as Deggendorf, short of where they initiated a 180° right turn to get back to Munich. This is by and large a car route I often take on my way to south. Just that I need almost the whole day for what they cover in one hour.

I have missed "The [Latest] Daybreak of the Year", sadly no clear sky for weeks in the Lowlands. The cloud front was blocking the sun for me this morning too, but I did make the eye (and lens:) contact with the airplane who was all lit in those first sun rays. The pilots have definitely witnessed this rare sunrise right before them.

Pre-focused on the airliner (back button focus, AFS), geese surprised me and are hence out of focus. Panasonic DC-G90, OM System 12-45mm f/4 at 45mm f/4, 1/1000 sec., ISO 200.
Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 2.4


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ꒌ ЈУТРО ДАНА НАЈКАСНИЈЕГ ИЗЛАСКА СУНЦА у Београду, 2. јануара, нешто даље на северу Европе било је опет облачно. Ништа од прве слике сунца у 2025. Ради утехе снимио сам претходне две фотографије и одустао. Прогноза је ипак најављивала сунце пре подне. После 15 минута кроз кухињски прозор указао се одсјај првог сунца на северном делу неба. Комбинација Панасоник - ОМ Систем нашла се на дохват лењог фотографа. Сунце "из друге руке" рефлектовано на ниским облацима. Овакво осветљење се у крајевима близу морске обале брзо мења.

► ▓░█ WE'VE HAD QUITE a challenging period behind, with weeks of gloomy, overcast skies, occasional gales, days-long rain and ever raging wind. Worst of all: very few sunshine, if any. From the winter solstice on I was patiently on guard for a clear morning so that I could finally photograph the latest sunrise of the year. The December 30th with its theoretically latest sunrise for this location went by in bad weather. The forecast on January 1st for the next day did promise Sun in the morning. So armed by my Japanese micro electronics and step-motor-driven glass I appeared on my balcony on January 2nd just in time to capture the glory furthest to south on the horizon. In vain! The clouds overwhelmed the eastern horizon. See previous two images.

After 15 minutes however from my kitchen I saw the first red glow reflected off the clouds due north. The Sun has finally emerged from the clouds! And these are its first rays I saw since the winter solstice.

Panasonic DC-G90, OM System 12-45mm f/4 at its longest throw of 45mm, stopped down to f/6.3, handheld 1/160 sec., ISO 200. Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 2.4


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