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Old 28-August-2006, 03:17 AM
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Hi Attiyah.
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Originally Posted by Attiyah Zahdeh View Post
Attiyah's Sun Theory
4) The Midnight Sun.
At the time of the midnight Sun, the sky becomes dark in spite of the presence of the Sun somewhat high above the horizon. Simply, the midnight Sun means that the normal Sun of the daytime is present at the time of the night or in a night sky. In other words, it means a sunny sky at night ,.i.e. a sunny sky without daylight even of the brightness of the twilight. Therefore, this phenomenon incites one to ask: where has the daylight that is usually concomitant with the Sun just gone?
I intended to address as many of your points as I was able in the order you've presented them, but this one was probably the easiest to answer first:
The "midnight sun" (polar day during summer solstice) never reaches zenith (stays very close to the horizon, yes?) so why would the sky at those latitudes become any brighter than "twilight" or "dusk-like"?
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5) The so-called white nights.
(snip)... In five words, a white night is a Sunless daylight.
Fortunately, both the phenomenon of the midnight Sun and the phenomenon of white nights are coincident. Factually, both of these two phenomena occur within the arctic and antarctic circles.
St. Petersburg, Russia is famous for its "white nights", yet is not within the arctic circle.
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Accordingly, because these two abnormalities are light displays, one would conclude that they should be associated with optical activities thought of to be characteristic of the regions within the arctic and Antarctic circles such that they would be extensive to the degree of showing all-sky display. Owing to the presence of the two classical auroral zones within the Arctic and Antarctic circles, it turns out that the sought optical activities are the auroras themselves.
I don't see the connection between auroral phenomenon and the polar day/night in polar latitudes. Just because they occur in similar regions does not mean that they are causally related.

I've listed the urls you provided; numbers 1, 2, 4, and 6 weren't working correctly. Except for number 4, I was able to find and link in the correct url below.
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  1. http://w2.syronex.com/jmr/albums/2004/scandinavia/north-cape-midnight-Sun-3.jpg.html
  2. http://joannagabler.com/images/lgimages/midnightSun.jpg
  3. http://spacsun.rice.edu/~has/Midnight_Sun.htm
  4. http://tonno.tesre.bo.cnr.it/~bellalui/Midnight1.jpg
  5. http://www.wisarts.com/digital/threed/pages/013_jpg.htm
  6. http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractalpages/midnightSun.htm
Number 1 looks like a typical sunset-like evening... not mid-day bright, as one might expect of a horizon-hugging sun. Any optical effects in the picture look like typical aberrations normally produced by a camera lens. I'm not sure what number 2 is supposed to represent or support. It's a painting. Number 3 didn't show anything surprising. I couldn't get number 4 to work. Numbers 5 and 6 are digital compositions intended for artistic purposes, not actual solar images.

I'll try and provide more later.
Oh yes, could you please provide references to the spectral data contained in the introduction of your original post?
Thanks.

Last edited by SMEaton; 28-August-2006 at 07:12 AM.. Reason: Typos, clarity, and space saving.