Terms of Endearment for Diurnal Appreciation
A precise chronology of daylight and nightlight.
dead of night
twilight / half-light (first)
- astronomical twilight
- nautical twilight
- civil twilight / blue hour
sunrise / golden hour
morning
midday
afternoon
magic hour / golden hour
sunset / sundown
twilight / half-light (second)
- civil twilight / blue hour
- nautical twilight
- astronomical twilight
nightfall
nighttime / nighttide
- League for Advancing the Understanding of Diurnal Illumination