Denver Sunrise Flight

Well, we got up early this morning to check out the sunrise over Denver. It was not as pretty as we had hoped, but it was still fun. It was also interesting to see how the colors change during the sunrise. Below is pretty much the same view at different times during the sunrise.

Official sunrise was at 6:15am this morning.

Still very dark.
Time: 5:50am, 25 minutes before sunrise.

Starting to get brighter.
Time: 5:54am, 21 minutes before sunrise.


Getting brighter, but very blue in tint.
Time: 6:08am, 7 minutes before sunrise.


After sunrise, and colors are getting warm, purplish.
Time: 6:18am, 3 minutes after sunrise.


Colors still warm, but different, more golden.
The favorite for me.
Time: 6:26am, 11 minutes after sunrise.


Colors are not golden and getting harsher.
Time: 6:47am, 32 minutes after sunrise.

We ended up with some dust on the sensor that was not there before the flight. We will have to fix that for the next set of pictures.

A fun flight in relatively smooth air. Especially since it was windy yesterday and is expected to get windy again today. We will have to do it again.

/Brian