Alaska Cruise

Marsha Robinson (mrobins@No-Spam)
Tue, 11 Jul 1999 18:42:31 -0700

I e-mailed you privately, but certainly from Vancouver you can see Aurora
Borealis...but you have to stay up late...after sunset. So you should
see things happen around 11:00p.m.-1:00a.m. (depedning on your
lattitude). Great year for that. Otherwise further north, the sun will
set past 1:00 a.m. and be up around 4:00 a.m. depending on where you are.
I couldn't stay up that late. In the winter, the sun is *up* between
11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. so the kids go to school in the dark and go home
in the dark. So there is that 3-hour window for sundown in the summer
and sunup in the winter (Anchorage and Denali). I didn't spend the night
in Fairbanks so I can't tell you about that.

mars

At 05:55 PM 7/11/00 -0700, you wrote:

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<excerpt><excerpt>Darn I hoped to see the northern lights, maybe from
Vancouver area. I had hoped to do some observing from the ship. art
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You won't have much luck seeing anything this time of year. It
gets "twilighty" in the middle of the night but that's about it.
But it depends though on how far north you go. You may get lucky and
get some darkness for an hour or two. Enjoy the daytime sights
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Alaska Cruise

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I will be going on an Alaskan Cruise next week with the family.
Is ther anything I should look at up there, I believe that the sun
will be up a good part of the time. Does anyone know if it gets
real dark at night or just twilight at this time of
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