Midnight sun time laps ( 11:15pm to 02:45am )

[windowsxpkid123]

cool i would not like to live there in summer but in winter i would love to

[BeatlesFetish09]

i live around the 45-46th parallel...and it doesn't go completely dark till 10 and the sun starts to rise between 4 and 5 during the height of summer. in the winter, however, the sun starts to come out around 8 and gets dark by 4:30. :( Still probably doesn't quite compare to the north pole...

[kingslice75]

This is amazing. I would think that the sun always "rose" in the East and "set" in the West. So I thought midnight sun just meant it rose and set just like at the equator, just REALLY slowly over 4 months instead of 12 hours. If the sun "bounces" off the horizon and comes back up, then does it rise and set in the North?

[allknowfather]

w w w . watchtower . org / fi / index . html Suomi

[Hyperezil]

This clearly proves that the earth is a stationary object in which the sun moves around the earth.

100% undeniable factual statement.

[MrLegendofzelda91]

@Hyperezil lol

[BritnorLongHair]

In Seattle, the sun does not go straight down, but slides down into the horizon. Even then, it still gets completely dark at night on the summer solstice.

[jarkkofan]

@BritnorLongHair ..I doubt that, I'm in Vancouver, thats only roughly 2-3 hours away, and it goes right down and isn't up for hours.

[javsc]

cool

[JustinU1984]

I live in Texas, and the sun does NOT do that here. It goes STRAIGHT down and does not play for hours at a low angle.

[149PCE]

@JustinU1984 Yeah... the closer you live to the equator the shorter the period of twilight and, of course, the farther north the longer the twilight lingers.

[Warthog1976]

Awesome vid!!!!!

[jayeshchoudhari]

why no music?

[xxsepehrxx]

haha wtf

[Kamelotter]

Really awesome clip thanks.

The best you will get here (living on the 54th northern parallel) is a prolonged twilight in June, where the sky stays a bit brightened over the northern sky, but nowhere as bright as in Norway, Sweden or Finland.

[BlonRocker]

awesome!

[Todesbengel]

DAMN COOL XD

[wallyboy1978]

that is cool.

[Tsubahi]

No more night!

Great for us busy people!XD

[xxxamericanhistoryx]

you can see it in Sweden, Finnland, Canada and Alaska to. Everywhere above the polarcirkel.

[Del4Mar]

If I'm right, Norway is the only place in the world where u can see the sun go down, have a "drink" from the sea and then rise again, which is pretty amazing. please tell me if i'm wrong. (maybe alaska is the same)

[ericdrummer18]

no its not just norway, you can see it as long as your above the arctic circle

[Del4Mar]

well that is right, Russia as well, but to get the view were it "dips" in the sea (which was my point, but I didn't explain it clear, sorry) you will have to be on the west coast, and Norway and Alaska is the only countries I can remember which has a west coast at the polar circle

[ericdrummer18]

ya you probably no more than me since i dont live anywhere near there lol

[boywithadolphin]

The midniht sun will dip into the NORTH horizon NOT the west! Here is my sunrise in London on the north east horizon. Moving higher in latitude moves the sun towards the north horizon.

[Sosso5]

I love living in Alta. We might think its annoying sometimes when its midnightsun, because its so bright and then we need daark curtains on our rooms XP

Thats why its a bit nice at winter, because then the sun will disappear for 2months. Candles are Veery popular at this time !

Today (25.11.07) it started to get dark round 1-2pm . now (16.57) its DEAD dark!

Hope those who travel to Alta will enjoy the time here :)

Greetings from Elise T. Alta

[LZmiljoona]

@Sosso5 I wont to go to there or anywhere in the far north of norway as an exchange student next year. I hope my parents will allow it...

[Sosso5]

@LZmiljoona really? that's epic. I know people from different countries who have been exchangestudents here. Are you thinking of travelling with AFS? I actually spent a year in England as an exchangestudent :) came home in June.

Good luck!

[LZmiljoona]

@Sosso5 Why is that epic? :)

And there have been e.students there before? No, I want to go just for about 5 months, AFS only offers one year. GLS, YFU, ... offer shorter programs, I think.

Thanks

[Sosso5]

@LZmiljoona

It's epic because exchangetrips are AWESOME :) I would love to do it all over again. Had such an amazing time and got so many friends. Too bad the time flew by so quickly though. never heard of GLS and YFU but sure they'll do their job well :)

[Dosalt]

@Sosso5 does the sun dissapear completely, fully dark for two months ?

[drodga]

There are great things about living in the North of the world I enjoy such as the long days in Summer, early dawns and late sunsets and sometimes seeing the Northern Lights too! Shame it's not that warm though and so I holiday in Italy for my brief 40degree fix!

[jmbenetti]

Great! Beatiful! Thanks for uploading this. I really want to go to Norway...

[delboyski]

Dear jm,

Locals there would have some addaption to the local light phenomenon, and unawaredly see a different band of visible light when they visit more equatorial places.

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One detected this en visit.

cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[jmbenetti]

I still hope one day I can watch it myself. I remember reading about this on a book years ago... (an adventure book, like Stevenson's Treasure Island or something from Verne) I think the writer(don't remember the who of them) was amazed with this phenomenon too. Nice post.

[zeels]

It was probably in "Journey into the Interior of the Earth". Iceland was the starting point of the marvellous underground journey imagined in this volume.

[jmbenetti]

Yes... "Journey into the Interior of the Earth" mentions midnight sun. Anyway I remember something about reading newspapers at midnight... I don't know if it was the same book. But it's still beautiful. I think I could keep watching this video or start saving money for a ticket to Norway(it's a long and expensive travel from Argentina, but who knows...)

[Hani3003]

wanna see that...

[aka99]

mee too! the sund never goes down during winter Oo

[bondesvik]

eh, the sun "never" rise during winter, in summer it never goes down

[Msfunkadelic]

That was pretty sweet, Thanks!

[Mountexplorer]

For those who live there it may be boring, but to the rest, it is pretty interesting to visit your country!

[pondereplaysucks]

wow id love to visit a place with the midnight sun some time

[df301lls]

Alta is a good place to live

[knopfl3r]

alta its booring.. i live here

[fenderiser]

Alta is the BEST city in Norway!

Beautiful here!

[NoMoreConfusion]

That was pretty good....

[PanchoWatkins]

pretty impressive and totally good speed effect

[steampak2]

totally awesome!