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The golden hour
I was on my
evening walk in the park near my house, engrossed in surroundings around me,
watching the sun done for the day and disappearing behind the Waianae mountain
range.
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| The lengthening shadows at sunset |
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| The leaves of this magnificent tree close at Sunset |
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| The lightened path at sunset |
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| The golden Honolulu skyline |
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| People at Sunset |
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| Catching up |
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| The Golden shower glowing in the last ray of sun |
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| The fall |
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| The Golden glow of Honolulu skyline |
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| The Golden hour |
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| The golden hour |
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| The Golden hour |
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| Fifty shades of everything |
I was also
busy trying to complete my share of walking and at the same time trying to
capture the divine moments of sunset through my iPhone.
What
happened next was nothing short of spectacular. As I was walking back to the
car, the sun has almost touched the horizon leaving the sky in 50 shades of
grey, yellow and orange.
But, on the
other side of the park I spotted a gorgeous sight: the moon rising! The sun was
still above the horizon and moon was also quite high. I could visualize the sun
and the moon at the same time.
It is as if
Mother Nature is displaying nightly change of guards and I was viewing “Sunset
Moonrise.”
When we can
see the sunset in the west, we are on a part of the Earth that was illuminated
and is now rotating such that sunlight will not shine upon us anymore. When we
see a moonrise in the east, it is because the Earth is rotating towards the
moon enough that it has risen above the horizon.
So, to see
the Sun and the moon at the same time, they both need to be on opposites sides
of the Earth. And this happens on the day of Full Moon.
In two days,
I have witnessed two impressive astronomical events.
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| The Moon rise |
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| The Moon rise |
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| The Moon rise |
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| The Moon rise |
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| Catching fish at Moon rise |
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| The peeping Moon |
