The blue hour takes place just before dawn and a few minutes after the sun sets. And it is due to the scattering by refraction that the solar rays suffer when passing through the atmosphere until they reach our eyes; When our star is hidden, the blue and violet radiation, which has a higher wave frequency, is the one that is most affected by the scattering and, therefore, they are the colors that stain the sky.
With good reason, the blue hour is a moment especially appreciated by lovers of photography, since urban or natural landscapes illuminated by that range of twilight hues allow us to obtain wonderful photographs that sometimes even manage to awaken nostalgia in us.
And it is not for less, because, in fact, the expression blue hour came to us from France , where it found great diffusion from the hand of writers and poets who associated l’heure bleue with feelings of melancholy.
The magic of the golden
Another splendid moment that our star gives us throughout the day is the so-called golden hour, which is observed when the sky is flooded with red, orange and yellow hues and, unlike the blue hour, it is enjoyed shortly after leaving the sun and prior to its withdrawal.
This hour that is also known as magic is the protagonist of those romantic sunrises and sunsets in which the horizon covers us with its yellow and red glows like fire. Of course, both the blue and golden hours do not last, as their name suggests, sixty minutes: depending on the geographical location and the time of year, they can exceed them but also be reduced to only ten. If you want to know when and for how long you will have your blue and gold hours wherever you are, this website will calculate it for you.
