The collateral adjective for twilight is crepuscular, which may be used to describe the behavior of animals that are most active during this period. For example, very old people may be said to be "in the twilight of their lives". Owing to its distinctive quality, primarily the absence of shadows and the appearance of objects silhouetted against the lit sky, twilight has long been popular with photographers and painters, who often refer to it as the blue hour, after the French expression l'heure bleue.īy analogy with evening twilight, the word twilight is also sometimes used metaphorically, to imply that something is losing strength and approaching its end. When the Sun again reaches 18° below the horizon, nighttime becomes morning twilight. When the Sun reaches 18° below the horizon, the twilight's brightness is nearly zero, and evening twilight becomes nighttime. The lower the Sun is beneath the horizon, the dimmer the twilight (other factors such as atmospheric conditions being equal). The word twilight is also used to denote the periods of time when this illumination occurs. Twilight is produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, illuminating the lower atmosphere so that Earth's surface is neither completely lit nor completely dark. Twilight is the illumination of the lower atmosphere when the Sun is not directly visible because it is below the horizon. Midtown Manhattan during civil twilight, demonstrating blue hour
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