PHOTOGRAPHER SIMON ROBERS, HAVE MADE A JOURNEY THROUGH 8 HOUR BELTS FOR THE CHASING HORIZONS PROJECT, CONTINUOUSLY LOVING THE SUNSETS FOR THE WHOLE 24 HOURS. IN THIS IT HELPED THE FORMER NATO PILOT AND THE CITIZEN CLOCK.
Speaking of the most beautiful phenomena on planet Earth, everyone will certainly call the sunset. If the sky is clear, and you can see how the solar disk blushes and hides beyond the horizon, all people in the district immediately grab their cameras and phones and begin to shoot this amazing sight, which, unfortunately, lasts only a few minutes.
But one person could find a way to enjoy the sunsets - and the most beautiful - for the whole day. And not just admired, but also photographed, and then made an amazing collage from these pictures. This man is British photographer Simon Robertson, whose photo project is called Chasing Horizons ("Chasing Horizons"). The project was conceived as part of a campaign in support of the new Citizen watch model - the Eco-Drive Satellite Wave F100, capable of just 3 seconds to set the exact local time in accordance with the satellite signal.
So that Robertson could photograph all the sunsets of the planet, the former NATO pilot Jonathan Nichol had to develop a route that allowed the plane to always stay in the same local time: between 18: 30-19: 00. To do this, the path of the air expedition should lie closer to the North Pole, where the Earth’s rotation is slower: if at a latitude of 80 ° the rotation speed is 289.95 km / h, then at a latitude of 60 ° it is already 834.9 km / h, and at equator - and at all 1040.4 km / h.
The plane, which started in Reykjavik, sat down twice for refueling. In the film about the expedition you can see only one refueling, as the second took place at a temperature below -50 °, at which the camera can not work. So in the end, the mission took more than 24 hours, but Simon managed to take pictures at predetermined time intervals and photographed all the sunsets. Interestingly, due to the proximity to the North Pole and low temperatures, the aircraft's on-board navigation equipment periodically failed, and then Nikol and Roberts had to navigate in the old fashioned way - using a map, and determine the time by the Eco-Drive Satellite Wave F100.
The clock in just 3 seconds received accurate information from the satellite and tuned to the desired time zone. A lightweight titanium case with a height of only 12.4 mm resisted the effects of magnetic fields, and the photocell recharged the battery from any light source. Seeing all the sunsets on Earth in one day is a little childish, but very romantic dream. And for many people who watched the film and photos that appeared thanks to Robertson, Nichol and Citizen watches, this dream came true.
