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Old 06-September-2006, 05:17 PM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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I'm not really adding anything to what's been said already, but since Attiyah Zahdeh wants reports based on personal experience rather than links to scientific sources, I suppose several independent reports of the same thing are the best level of evidence we can offer.
I've a cumulative experience of several months at high latitudes during the summer season, much of that time at 70 or 80 degrees north.
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(1) How does the midnight Sun really appear?
Blue sky, bright sun, feels like some time in the afternoon despite being 12 midnight. The usual photographs of the midnight sun don't do the season justice: they're often taken from North Cape in Norway, or from north Iceland, with the sun very low on the horizon, so it looks like sunset. In the high Arctic it's just like a day that goes on all night.
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(2) Do people see the stars and planets during the night of the midnight sun?
No. Blue sky.
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(3) Is the night of the midnight Sun real? In other words, is there a real darknees along the night of the midnight Sun or during any part of it?
No. Blue sky, bright sun.
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(4) How long is the night of the midnight Sun?
At the latitudes I'm talking about, the sun is above the horizon for months on end. There is no night.
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(5) What about the behavior of the birds and animals at such a night?
The local creatures have evolved to exploit the continuous daylight. I've seen polar bears and arctic foxes hunting, and seabirds fishing, at clock times near midnight.
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(6) What about the auroras at the time of the midnight Sun?
Can't be seen: blue sky, bright sun.

Grant Hutchison