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For the past few months, I've been watching sunrises and sunsets on Belle Hades in Celestia. Only recently have I contemplated getting up early to watch the sunrise in real life here on Earth. I was meaning to do it all week this past week because of all the sunshine the weatherpeople have predicted. Only today I finally got up to watch the sunrise. Very different from Celestia, that's for sure. And a wonderful experience too.

When was the last time you took time off to watch a sunrise or sunset?

I used to watch the sun rise at least once a week but not anymore.

Surprisingly (mostly to me lol) I see them often. I must say however that the most beautiful and stunning are those out at sea - no land what-so-ever in sight, the earth and sky merge in an explosion of color. Very beautiful!

I've occasionally watched sunsets at work during the winter, but not otherwise in the last six years or so.

Watching the sunset over the sea or a low, flat horizon is well worth it. I have seen a few green flashes that way. The sun sinks below the horizon, and just for half a second or so the sun turns bright green, then is gone.

Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Red sky at night, sailors delight.

LordFerret wrote:

Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Red sky at night, sailors delight.

Funny, in German it sounds a bit different:

Abendrot trockenes Brot, Morgenrot, nasses Brot.

Fridger

This morning. I also see them on a regular basis. (Almost every morning between the start of september and the end of june. The high school I go to is about a 1 hour bus ride from where I live. I have to get up at six in the morning, and I usually head out about a half-hour later. I suffer through the freezing cold of winter (Winters in eastern Ontario are brutal!), but I get at least I get to see the sunrise.)

LordFerret wrote:

Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Red sky at night, sailors delight.

Era gi? l'ora che volge il disio
ai navicanti e 'ntenerisce il core
lo d? c'han detto ai dolci amici addio;
e che lo novo peregrin d'amore
punge, se ode squilla di lontano
che paia il giorno pianger che si more;
quand'io incominciai a render vano
l'udire e a mirare una dell'alme
surta che l'ascoltar chiedea con mano.
[Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto VIII]

(literally)
It was already the hour that turn desire
to sailors and touch the heart
the day they have said to the sweets friends goodbye;
and that new pilgrim of love
prik, if hear blares from away
which seem the day crying until die;
when I begin to render vain
the hearing and to look one of the souls
so stood that the calling wished with hand.
[Dante Alighieri, Purgatory, Chant VIII]