Sunrise Observations: Fairbanks, AK, USA: 2025-04-21 (publ. 2025-04-22)

On 2025-04-21 I was able to get out for a brief sunrise viewing. It was not a grand sunrise, and the colors did not last long, but I decided I would upload some brief notes anyway.

At 5:39am I was parked at the beginning of the dike road south of the airport runway. Red was just beginning to show toward the NE, with one vivid, red glowing spot over the hills, and some pink-red along the lower edge of a nearby cloud, stretching out horizontally.

At 5:42am, the view is mostly the same, except that a vertical shaft of pink-red is coming up from the glowing spot. Most of the sky ahead of me, as I'm facing north, is a thick overcast sky, but only up to about 10 degrees of the horizon. The sky is clear above that. So I am looking at a wide view of thick clouds off in the far distance. This cloud layer is puffy but flat, and becoming sparse at the edges nearer to my zenith.

At 5:52 the glow has reduced to just a thin band over the hills. Off to work.

Later, using colorhexa.com, I tried to put a name to the "pink-red" color. The color which seemed closest to my fading memory was Persian Rose, hex code #FE28A2.

fe28a2 Color Information

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