Talk:Twilight
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[edit] Additions
I would like to see the addition of calculating all twilights (civil/nautical/astronomical) by hand given lat/long/altitude. I am not familiar enough with LaTex to do this myself at this point. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.127.87.189 (talk • contribs).
- I am not sure why you would like to calculate this yourself. There are lots of astronomical and planetarium software that works out the timing automatically depending on location. I know of Astronomy Lab 2, Cybersky and Orbitron that generate this information. There are also a number of astronomical websites that can tell you this information eg. Heavens Above. - Shiftchange 00:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
It looks like the Civil Twilight page material has been merged with Twilight, but the page still exists and the diambiguation page does not list it. I don't know how to fix this.--Fitzaubrey 04:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- I changed Civil twilight to be a redirect to this page. --Usgnus 05:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge
Should this article be merged with dawn?
Oppose. Twilight and dawn are two different things, though related (provide links). However, I am for merging twilight with dusk. --HereToHelp (talk) 13:38, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Oppose. Dusk and dawn are the times that evening twilight begins and morning twilight ends with. I would oppose twilight being merged into either dusk or dawn. Merging both of these topics into twilight would be more appropriate. - Shiftchange 10:07, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Oppose. I agree with Shiftchange. I have just used Wikipedia to look up the definition of civil twilight. I would have been most dissapointed had I been redirected to dawn or dusk. Dawn and dusk refer to specific times. Twilight refers to a period of time. - Allen Oliver 18:42, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Oppose per Allen Oliver. Bad idea. Civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight are specific terms with distinct meanings which would be lost with a merge into "dusk" or "dawn". - Sensor 03:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Oppose per Shiftchange above. Dusk and dawn are terms for evening twilight and morning twilight respectively. Twilight is the usual scientific term. Dusk and dawn should be merged into Twilight. 204.101.243.169 16:36, 11 April 2006 (UTC) (logging in again to sign) Slowmover 16:37, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
