last sunrise/sunset for Barrow Alaska

[Dionne]

Steve.....I spent three years in Prudhoe working. Arco Special projects subsidence team at NGI and the Sohio modular office complex in Deadhorse. Alaska was my home for more than 20 years. My summer home was at Mile post 92 on the Parks highway and we wintered out in Girdwood......the Alyeska resort.....45 miles outside Anchorage on the Turnagain Arm. Don't even try to tell me about the sunlight hours in the far north. While your use of math is impressive it does not paint the true picture of summer daylight above the Arctic circle. Now go find someone else to pick apart.

[TampaSteve]

Steve.....I spent three years in Prudhoe working. Arco Special projects subsidence team at NGI and the Sohio modular office complex in Deadhorse. Alaska was my home for more than 20 years. My summer home was at Mile post 92 on the Parks highway and we wintered out in Girdwood......the Alyeska resort.....45 miles outside Anchorage on the Turnagain Arm. Don't even try to tell me about the sunlight hours in the far north. While your use of math is impressive it does not paint the true picture of summer daylight above the Arctic circle. Now go find someone else to pick apart.

You did not answer my question. There may be confusion as to what we are talking about here. Were you talking about the actual solar disk, or just the extent of daylight/twilight? I am referring to the actual solar disk, not the daylight or twilight in the sky.

I used to work at Elmendorf AFB (3rd Comm Squadron), and have traveled to the Arctic on a number of occasions, so I am quite familiar with the summer daylight in Alaska. I know Alyeska...cool place...gotta love those slush avalanches...and there's nothing like some termination dust to ring in Labor Day weekend and remind you just how short summer really is in Alaska. Combat fishing in Ship Creek...big fun!

The disk of the sun does not stay above the horizon for a full 24 hours in Anchorage, even at the Summer Solstice, though it is light all the time during that time of year. The sun only stays above the horizon if you are above the Arctic Circle, or just barely South of it and have a clear horizon to the North (you get a little leeway because of atmospheric refraction).

[Dionne]

Your right....the further north you go in the summer time the more daylight hours you experience.

This coming Memorial Day is when I miss Alaska the most......the early Kings arrive into the northern reaches of Cook Inlet.
Once you have fished King salmon your ruined for life.....I have yet to find any other fish I enjoy catching more!