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[icepixie]

I am vidding, and have two observations:

1.) Man, Northern Exposure sure had a lot of night shots. (Understandable, I suppose, since, hey, set in Alaska, with eighteen hours of darkness for half the year. Still.)

2.) Their directors and/or cinematographers (I am unclear on exactly who decides to film a scene from an unusual angle or that a shot will be tracking instead of static and things like that) were amazing. This is one of the most beautifully shot TV shows I've ever seen. I love the way they make use of the transitions from indoors to outdoors around the radio station, Ruth-Anne's shop, and Fleischman's office. I'm also fond of all the overhead shots.

I have a good feeling about this vid. I'm mostly done; it's just about eight seconds towards the end that are giving me fits. Everything I try just seems kind of blah. It'll work out, though, even if I have to do some rearranging.

Current mouse status: Silent. But last night it didn't start up until almost midnight, so this means nothing. At least only seems to move around for two or three hours at a time before going silent the rest of the night and day.

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[celamity]

I see that Alaska suffers from the same daylight misconceptions as here.

November-january would be darker than you expected, with 18 hours of darkness at a latitude of 60N in december.

February and october would have something like 15 hours of darkness.

At the equinoxes, in september and march, 12 hours of day and night, just like everywhere else on the planet.

April-early september, Alaska would have more daylight than you expected, up to 18 hours of sun in june at 60N latitude which would be combined with twilight that never quite faded but might give about 3 hours of 'night' time.

(Last night, here at 70N latitude, I saw stars for the first time since early april.)

[celamity]

(And I have friends, both visiting and not, who have believed that it's pitch black here all day in february, even late february. It isn't.)