Sunrise Around The World
September Equinox 2022
Equinoxes occur twice each year, around 20 March and 23 September. In 2022, the September equinox occurred on 23 September at 01:03 UTC. It marked the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, while marking the start of spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
As the planet rotated during the first full day of autumn/spring in 2022, people on Earth successively experienced sunrise in each of the 24 nautical time zones around the world. Some might witness the Sun rising if their skies permitted while others might only see a brightening of the day if clouds intervened. But all would experience sunrise nonetheless.
Earlier this year, I organized a group of 24 people to photograph sunrise on the September equinox across each of the 24 nautical time zones around the world. The project had two objectives: (1) Create a movie that takes the viewer on a journey around the world by showing 24 sunrise images in sequence, from the first time zone to see sunrise each day (UTC+12), proceeding westward as each time zone sees sunrise, ending with time zone UTC+11. (2) Make an image collage showcasing all 24 sunrise images.
The intent was to capture 24 sunrise images on the equinox day of 23 September, however, Mother Nature did not get the memo. A number of difficulties, including freak storms, monsoons and a hurricane conspired to prevent obtaining the all of the photos on the one day. This forced a more modest goal - a movie and image collage of Sunrise Around The World around the September Equinox of 2022.
The movie is best viewed in full-screen HD with sound.
The image collage can be viewed at:
www.flickr.com/photos/5385134...
A time slice version of the image collage can be viewed at:
www.flickr.com/photos/5385134...
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Photographer Credits
The following people generously provided the images for the movie.
Thank you to all for your efforts in obtaining the photos!
UTC+12, Auckland NZ, Chris Pegman
www.chrispegman.com
UTC+11, Dunedin NZ, Ian Griffin
/ iangriffin
UTC+10, Canberra AU, Lucy Yunxi Hu
www.flickr.com/people/1940228...
UTC+09, Seoul KR, Kwon O Chul
kwonochul.com
UTC+08, Perth AU, John Goldsmith
www.celestialvisions.com.au
UTC+07, Chongqing CN, Jeff Dai
twanight.org/profile/jeff-dai
UTC+06, Kolkata IN, Soumyadeep Mukherjee
/ soumyadeepmukherjeephotos
UTC+05, New Delhi IN, Neelam & Ajay Talwar
ajaytalwar.com
UTC+04, Dubai AE, Awais Ahmed
/ acephotographydubai
UTC+03, Antananarivo MG, Toky Sariaka
UTC+02, Amman JO, Zaid M. Al-Abbadi
/ zaidmalabbadi
UTC+01, Catania IT, Loredana Gentile
UTC 00, London GB, Chris Finlay
UTC-01, Tenerife ES, Si Rowland
/ starmanastronomy
UTC-02, Nordeste PT, Romualdo Farias
UTC-03, Cambara do Sul BR, Egon Filter
/ egonfilter
UTC-04, Eastern Passage CA, Jason Dain
/ dainjason
UTC-05, San Pedro de Atacama CL, Alexis Trigo
/ alexistrigot
UTC-06, Slidell US, Corey Roberts
UTC-07, Lucky Lake CA, Tehno Tuomi
www.lex.sk.ca/astro
UTC-08, Edmonton CA, Luca Vanzella
www.flickr.com/people/5385134...
UTC-09, Juneau US, Sean Neilson
www.seanneilson.com
UTC-10, Maui US, Rob Ratkowski
UTC-11, Tiapapata WS, Steven Percival
www.creativesamoa.com
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Footnotes
1. A "nautical time zone" is a 15° wide gore (segment) of longitude corresponding to a one-hour change in time. The 24 nautical time zones have a uniform spacing and shape, unlike the 37 "political" or "UTC-offset" time zones. See:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautica...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
2. In the end, 28 people participated, but since I could use only 24 images for the main part of the movie, I added a coda showing the 4 additional images by these photographers.
UTC+03, Antananarivo MG, Kelley Armfield
UTC+03, Ambalavao MG, Alene Nafziger
UTC+01, Ragusa IT, Marcella Pace
/ marcella_giulia_pace
UTC-02, Nordeste PT, Ana Cabral
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