On the shore 12 minutes before sunrise. High cloud at 42 percent with almost nothing low or mid, and the cirrus took the light in pink and orange streaks across the whole sky. The water was still enough to hold all of it.
- Camera
- Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
- Focal
- 13 mm eq.
- Aperture
- f/1.9
- Shutter
- 1/120
- ISO
- 100
- Taken
- 7:07 AM
- Sunrise
- 12 min before
- Color index
- 34.2
What the Watch Saw
The Numbers
Elevation from the watch: 5-point median, then only climbs over 3 m count. Moving time drops stretches under 1 km/h.
Where It Went
Route and Profile
9,469 GPS points, drawn from 294 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.
Download the GPX (1003 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.
Elevation in feet against distance in miles. The dashed line is where the track was at sunrise. Pins mark where the photos were taken.
| Mile | Passed | Split | Climb |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:00 AM | 24:22 | 10 ft |
| 2 | 7:39 AM | 39:30 | 91 ft |
| 3 | 8:00 AM | 20:42 | 70 ft |
| 4 | 8:20 AM | 20:22 | 70 ft |
| 5 | 8:42 AM | 22:05 | 0 ft |
| 6 | 9:05 AM | 22:42 | 10 ft |
| 6.4 | 9:15 AM | 10:17 | 0 ft |
Each mile as the watch recorded it: the clock at the marker, the time it took with stops included, and the climb inside it. The marked row is the one the sun came up in.
At Sunrise
Conditions at Sunrise
Cloud cover here is the low and middle layers together, the cloud that hides the sun. High cloud is what a sunrise lights up, so it is counted on its own. Open-Meteo archive (ERA5 and IFS analysis), 7:00 AM. Station KPDK (Atlanta, De Kalb-Peachtree Airport), 10.7 mi away, 7:20 AM: 73°F, sky BKN070, mostly cloudy.
Same Sky
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