Please see this article for our thinking around this:
Magical Gold and Blue: Confusion in the Twilight Zone
The short version:
- We’re not big fans of this term.
- It has no generally agreed definition.
- Different apps define it differently, so you won’t see consistent times.
- Sunset, Civil and Nautical Twilight gives you everything you need to know based on widely accepted scientific definitions
We have adopted “ Golden hour ” (another term that is not well defined, but one that has some practical usefulness and which does not duplicate an existing scientifically-defined term) as follows:
- “ Golden hour ” is the time when the sun is between 0° and +6° above the horizon
Caveats:
- Other apps define it differently - we respectfully disagree 😬
- “ Golden hour ” ≠ “ Magic hour ”