#1. Taken at 07:26:29 am - Right at the moment before the sun first appeared.
#2. Taken at 07:26:50 am - The sun first appeared.
#3. Taken at 07:27:16 am - A quarter of the sun.
#4. Taken at 07:27:54 am - A half disk sun.
#5. Taken at 07:28:51 am - Almost done.
#6. Taken at 07:29:12 am - A full disk sun.
This is the process of sunrise from below the horizon behind a hill to the sun has its full disk in the sky. The entire process takes about 2 minutes and 43 seconds.
It happens everyday. It is one of the most beautiful moments in a day. How many times have you witnessed this process?
From the observing of this process, the nature reminds me that our Earth is turning all the time, and do not waste time in achieving our goals because our life is short. The Earth would not stop and wait for us. Today is the 2nd day of a new year which means almost 0.6% of 2010 has just gone without much of our notice.
Lets keep ourselves moving towards our most important goals in our life which we cannot afford to miss.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbacki can’t see sunrise from my place cos it’s facing the other direction… wow, didn’t know that it’ll rise so fast in 3 minutes.. but then again, the earth is constantly rotating…
Yes, it is fast. The speed is 15 degree per hour. That’s why it makes 360 degree per day (1 round).
By knowing it takes < 3 minutes to appear from head to toe, the angular diameter or apparent size of the sun is < 0.75 degree.
The actual size is 0.52 - 0.54 degree.
Ignore it if you don’t understand, it is very technical.
However, if you can understand, you will find a lot of elements in our mother nature pretty amazing.
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