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Sun never rises or sets

Visualize a day when sun never rises, you have darkness, normal twilight and then nothing happens as if the Sun just got stuck. All credits to Subhasis Pandey for sharing his experience. While my cadet does the calculation, such phenomenon may occur at higher latitudes (above 66.5 degrees) and at sun's maximum declination (23.5 degrees). Such circumpolar sun is an experience to live. Some mariners have also experienced "Midnight sun" a phenomenon when the sun never sets and so the term.