PHOTOS: Autumn arrives with Alice Enevoldsen’s equinox sunset watch

Many times over her seven-plus years of explaining equinoxes and solstices at West Seattle’s Solstice Park, Alice Enevoldsen has had young volunteers from the crowd assist. Last night, her daughter Vera wielded Alice’s legendary globe-on-a-stick last night during the sunset gathering hours after autumn arrived (1:02 pm Friday, if you’re keeping track). Alice is a volunteer NASA Solar System Ambassador, and these events are part of what she does to fulfill that role. Solstice Park – uphill from the tennis courts by north Lincoln Park – is a perfect one-of-a-kind place for this because of its markers and paths that line up with where the sunset should be on those four season-change dates each year. Most of the more than 70 attendees gathered with Alice at the back of the appropriate path at the sunset moment:

Clouds prevented a clear view, but it was a pretty sunset just the same.

Alice also folds in the most-recent skywatching highlights – so this time, that meant some talk about last month’s eclipse, and the recent end of contact with Cassini.

Next seasonal-change sunset watch, meantime, will mark the start of winter – keep watch on Alice’s website in the meantime. And on the sky, which showed some color before event’s end:

3 Replies to "PHOTOS: Autumn arrives with Alice Enevoldsen's equinox sunset watch"

  • D September 23, 2017 (2:33 pm)

    Sunset at green lake loop on September 23rd equinox. 

    • Swede. September 23, 2017 (5:04 pm)

      Wow! 

      Wasn’t quite that intense colors when I was there ;-)

  • Bradley September 23, 2017 (4:43 pm)

    Sunrise and sunset will both be at exactly 7am/7pm on 09/25/17 (Monday).

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