Winter Solstice in the Arctic. Fairbanks, Alaska. Time-lapse video.

December 21, 2009. The Winter Solstice — the shortest day of the year in Earth's Northern Hemisphere — is shown in this two-minute time-lapse video. Only 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, this video shows snow, spruce trees, sunrise and sunset. Daylight lasted 3 hours and 41 minutes, but the sun was partly obscured by an overcast sky of stratus clouds. The video includes six hours: pre-dawn (one hour before sunrise) and dusk (one hour after sunset). Copyright Eric Muehling 2009. All rights reserved. Available in high-definition. Original frames were shot in 10-second intervals with a Canon D30 SLR (raw format).

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Winter Solstice
• Fairbanks
• snow
• spruce trees
• cold
• darkness.

[simsotexsublimation]

Greatest place in the world.

[AK2CA00]

i miss living in Fairbanks, really a great place to live..

[Fathersjoy]

Hi Eric,

your vids are great! Would very much like to know where you got the music to this one from..? It´s very special! What´s the name of it? Kindly/Nilla

[Shabungbung]

I live here and I don't get why people think that it's so pretty. It's not. If you want to go somewhere pretty in Alaska go to like Kenai.

[teresamariebrown]

this looks so depressing

[xVhincex]

I love living here

[Tonailsprinkles]

@RonSyrnyk2

its unlike any other place in the US. its beautiful and i suggest going :)

[Coffeeaddict3]

Somebody put this to the song "sanctuary" from kingdom hearts right now please :)

[RonSyrnyk2]

Nice video, I would love to go there one day

[sabinabarbara]

splendido grazie