Summer Solstice 'Starburst Sunset' - Penmaen-bach Headland, near Penmaenmawr, Conwy, North Wales Coast - | In Explore 24.6.2022 | Thank you all!!!
Took this 'Starburst' image at 21.20pm on Tuesday 21st June 2022 - twenty seven minutes before the sun would finally disappear below the Western Horizon.
Had I have left it much later, it would have firstly been obscured by the incoming sea mist and low cloud visible above the horizon.
I'm on the summit of the Limestone Penmaen-bach headland 245m (803ft) above Conwy Bay in the foreground. To my immediate left is the Menai Straits with Puffin Island.
Thereafter and directly behind Puffin Island, in the distance is Yns Mon (English - The Isle of Anglesey). Centre and beyond Puffin Island is the Irish Sea.
Try enlarging for a closer look. You'll also find several cargo ships in the centre and to the distant right.
The Summer Solstice or Midsummer occurs when the Earth's poles are at their maximum tilt to the sun. It happens twice yearly - one in each hemisphere (Northern ansd Southern). It's also when the longest period of daylight occurs and the shortest night of the year when the sun is at its highest point in the sky.
Summer Solstice 'Starburst Sunset' - Penmaen-bach Headland, near Penmaenmawr, Conwy, North Wales Coast - | In Explore 24.6.2022 | Thank you all!!!
Took this 'Starburst' image at 21.20pm on Tuesday 21st June 2022 - twenty seven minutes before the sun would finally disappear below the Western Horizon.
Had I have left it much later, it would have firstly been obscured by the incoming sea mist and low cloud visible above the horizon.
I'm on the summit of the Limestone Penmaen-bach headland 245m (803ft) above Conwy Bay in the foreground. To my immediate left is the Menai Straits with Puffin Island.
Thereafter and directly behind Puffin Island, in the distance is Yns Mon (English - The Isle of Anglesey). Centre and beyond Puffin Island is the Irish Sea.
Try enlarging for a closer look. You'll also find several cargo ships in the centre and to the distant right.
The Summer Solstice or Midsummer occurs when the Earth's poles are at their maximum tilt to the sun. It happens twice yearly - one in each hemisphere (Northern ansd Southern). It's also when the longest period of daylight occurs and the shortest night of the year when the sun is at its highest point in the sky.