The Latest Daybreak of the Year - a photo on Flickriver

            ꒌ   ТРАГОМ СУНЦА – Наслов ове књиге Алана Жербоа [Alain Gerbault, 1893 - 1941], давно преведене на српски, прати ме цео живот. Често се појави у мислима или ситуацији чак и кад нема повода за то. Жербо је остао да живи на Јужним морима Тихог океана; мој сан се није остварио чак ни да видим Полинезију, ни друга острва Океаније (осим острва Светог Јована у Сингапурском мореузу). 

Пилоти авиона на фотографији иду трагом сунца – али не било којим! Него ка Београду. Ово је за мало био тренутак најкаснијег рађања сунца ове зиме (теоретски овде пре три дана; у Београду баш овог јутра у 07:15). Ипак нисам имао срећу да доживим тај излазак, због облака који се виде на слици (испод авиона). Али пилоти Ербаса су боље среће. Светлуцави траг иза њихових млазних мотора сведочи да су они обасјани сунцем. На висини од 37.000 стопа (11.278 метара), дакле изнад облака, не само што виде сунце које је мени заклоњено, него је оно за њих одавно изнад хоризонта (због њихове висине изнад површине земље). Тачно пре један сат полетели су из Даблина и за нешто мање од сат времена слетеће у Минхен. 

► ▓░█    IN QUEST OF THE SUN. The first minute of the day – 2 Jan 2025  07:48 UTC / 08.48 CET (local time). Taken mere seconds after the astronomical sunrise, which in this particular place on the globe on this day is almost the very latest sunrise of the winter (the latest was on December 30th but the difference is just several seconds and all those mornings were totally gloomy ⛆overcast)! Sun rises here at 128°SE, almost exactly as is the flight direction of this Airbus A320 belonging to Aer Lingus. The flight EIN3KM originated in Dublin 59' prior to this capture and will be landing at Munich MUC over 52'. So the pilots in the cockpit at 37.000 ft (11.278 m, which is 2400 m higher than the summit of Mt. Everest) are probably watching the sunrise precisely ahead of them. In spite of the clouds above Germany it is indicated by the sunlit jet trail behind them. Their view of the sun is thus not blocked by the clouds like my view is. 

They are flying at 525 kts, so for the crew the scenery must be changing really fast. Having crossed the Irish Sea they encountered Liverpool, then traversing England and crossing the North Sea they reached the Old Continent at Den Hague; then flew over Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Biesbosch. They are above Eindhoven Airport at this moment, ahead of them is not a straight route to Munich but a corridor connecting the airports on route – Cologne, Frankfurt, almost as far as Deggendorf, short of where they initiated a 180° right turn to get back to Munich. This is by and large a car route I often take on my way to south. Just that I need almost the whole day for what they cover in one hour. 

I have missed "The [Latest] Daybreak of the Year", sadly no clear sky for weeks in the Lowlands. The cloud front was blocking the sun for me this morning too, but I did make the eye (and lens:) contact with the airplane who was all lit in those first sun rays. The pilots have definitely witnessed this rare sunrise right before them. 

Pre-focused on the airliner (back button focus, AFS), geese surprised me and are hence out of focus. Panasonic DC-G90, OM System 12-45mm f/4 at 45mm f/4, 1/1000 sec., ISO 200.
Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 2.4

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File name: P1020909-from-RAW_#1

Taken on: January 2, 2025

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