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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

But, the "days" aren't pitch black. The days are like dusk, where the sun is just below the horizon. It looks like there's about 5 hours of dusk type light on the winter solstice, from about 10am until 3pm. Still, I'd love to experience polar night and polar day. I have been between ~2ºS latitude and 43ºN latitude with most of my time spent around 30º. Most of the places that I've lived the sun has seemed fairly well overhead in the summer (even though it's not). But it would be interesting to visit someplace where even in the middle of the summer, the sun is still fairly low in the sky.

A day in the Polar Night

A normal “day” during the Polar Night, begins with the astronomical night which spreads over the midnight time, and is followed by a period of astronomical twilight (very early mornings), then by a period of nautical twilight (that lasts till when people start going to work in the mornings). After that, the civil twilight brings a bit of light, due to the Sun which is closer to the horizon (but still under it), which usually covers the noon period. After that, nautical twilight starts during the afternoons and is followed by the astronomical twilight during the evenings and, finally, the astronomical night takes over and the cycle repeats.

When the sky is clear, there is more light than when the sky is covered by clouds. The Polar Night is a beautiful period, when Northern Lights may dance in the dark sky and when the full moon lights up the entire winter scenery.

Polar day