The sun rises in the east.
On March 11 the Sun rose above the horizon at 6:55 in Lexington KY (Kentucky).
Just over the horizon.
425000meters long
No matter where you live, the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Depending on the date and on your latitude, the Sun may rise well north of east (in the summer) or well south of east (in the winter), but the general direction of sunrise is always east.
Both cross the horizon.
The horizon seems to rise when watching it on a shore because the sun is moving down. To a person, it looks like the water is rising over the sun.
It is when the sun or moon breaks the horizon. And sunset and moonset happen when the last bit (trailing limb) goes below the horizon.
tropic of Capricorn
Due east
The sun sets over the horizon.
At the North Pole, the Sun will rise above the horizon when spring starts, and it will set at the start of autumn.___________________________If you are at the north pole, then the Sun will rise about March 19, and set about September 23.I know, you expected to hear "March 21" and "September 21", right? Well, the fact is that the Sun's light is refracted around the Earth by the atmosphere; when we see the Sun peek over the horizon, it is ACTUALLY a couple of degrees BELOW the horizon! Celestial navigators have to apply a small correction to observations that are within about 15 degrees of the horizon.This leads to an interesting quirk; an observer at the south pole and an observer at the north pole will BOTH see the Sun as being just above the horizon!
Sunrise (and moonrise) is when the leading edge of the sun just breaks the horizon, and sunset is when the trailing edge of the sun just sinks below the horizon. Observations may differ slightly from calculated times, since air conditions will effect the bending of the light
Depending on the atmospheric conditions, when you see the Sun rise, it may actually be between about 1 and 4 degrees below the horizon, due to refraction in the atmosphere.Depending on the atmospheric conditions, when you see the Sun rise, it may actually be between about 1 and 4 degrees below the horizon, due to refraction in the atmosphere.Depending on the atmospheric conditions, when you see the Sun rise, it may actually be between about 1 and 4 degrees below the horizon, due to refraction in the atmosphere.Depending on the atmospheric conditions, when you see the Sun rise, it may actually be between about 1 and 4 degrees below the horizon, due to refraction in the atmosphere.
The sun rose gently over the eastern horizon.
further south
The sunrise is due east on the equinoxes.
While the Sun appears to rise up from the horizon in the east and go back down below the horizon in the west, it is not actually moving around the Earth. We see the Sun "rise" or "set" because the Earth rotates so that the part we are on turns to face the Sun or face away from the Sun.