Skygazers take in 'Torontohenge'
By Maryam Shah, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 10:22 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 11:11 PM EDT
TORONTO - Torontohenge came to pass Tuesday, leaving excited photographers and Instagrammers in its wake.
The phenomenon takes place four times a year – twice for sunsets, twice for sunrises - and is a perfect photo-op for a sunset or sunrise aligned along the east-west streets of downtown Toronto.
“For the downtown, where all the tall buildings are and where the streets form canyons with walls on one side, that's where it's most dramatic,” said Ralph Bouwmeester, a civil engineer with a speciality in sun position modelling.
He gave followers a friendly heads-up on Twitter a couple days before Torontohenge came along.
“I usually try to get those dates and times for people, and let them know in advance so that the photographers can get their cameras out,” he said.
If you missed it, there will be other parts of the city where the sun will set directly down other east-west streets that are “aligned slightly differently,” Bouwmeester said, either Wednesday or next month.
St Clair Ave. looking west from Mt Pleasant at sunset on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. (Michael Peake/Toronto Sun)
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By Maryam Shah, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 10:22 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 11:11 PM EDT
TORONTO - Torontohenge came to pass Tuesday, leaving excited photographers and Instagrammers in its wake.
The phenomenon takes place four times a year – twice for sunsets, twice for sunrises - and is a perfect photo-op for a sunset or sunrise aligned along the east-west streets of downtown Toronto.
“For the downtown, where all the tall buildings are and where the streets form canyons with walls on one side, that's where it's most dramatic,” said Ralph Bouwmeester, a civil engineer with a speciality in sun position modelling.
He gave followers a friendly heads-up on Twitter a couple days before Torontohenge came along.
“I usually try to get those dates and times for people, and let them know in advance so that the photographers can get their cameras out,” he said.
If you missed it, there will be other parts of the city where the sun will set directly down other east-west streets that are “aligned slightly differently,” Bouwmeester said, either Wednesday or next month.
St Clair Ave. looking west from Mt Pleasant at sunset on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. (Michael Peake/Toronto Sun)
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